Google’s next-generation AI training system is monstrously fast

Google today is unveiling its second-generation Tensor Processor Unit, a cloud computing hardware and software system that underpins some of the company’s most ambitious and far-reaching technologies. CEO Sundar Pichai announced the news onstage at the keynote address of the company’s I/O developer conference this morning.Google’s TPU is the foundation of its artificial intelligence work
The first TPU, shown off last year as a special-purpose chip designed specifically for mach