Google makes major leap forward with new Tensor Processing Unit

Google makes major leap forward with new Tensor Processing Unit

Accelerator will move Moore’s Law forward by seven years On Wednesday at Google’s annual I/O developer conference in Mountain View, California, the company went forward and announced a revolutionary new processing accelerator unit for machine learning that is now expected to move a recently-slowing Moore’s Law forward by at least three chip generations, or seven years. Image credit: VentureBeat.com Google says its new Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU, is capable of delivering an order of magnitude higher performance-per-watt “than all commercially available GPUs and FPGAs.” The new accelerator unit is specifically built and custom designed for machine learning tasks. In fact, Google engineer Norm Jouppi says in a company blog post that the TPU accelerators have been running in company datacenters for more than a year, with at least one…


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