Google opens up about its TPU chips for AI

Google today is providing more information about its tensor processing unit (TPU), the server chip that it uses in house to perform artificial intelligence (AI) computing workloads more efficiently. Google has been using TPUs internally since 2015. The company disclosed the existence of the TPU last year but hadn’t said anything more about the technology until now.
In addition to publishing a paper on the TPU, Google’s David Patterson is also giving a talk about it today at a Nationa