There are central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and even data processing units (DPUs) – all of which are well-known and commonplace now. GPUs in particular have seen a ...

Will Google’s TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) emerge as a rival to NVIDIA’s GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)? Last month, Google announced its new AI model ‘Gemini 3,’ stating, “We used our self-developed ...

TPUs are Google’s specialized ASICs built exclusively for accelerating tensor-heavy matrix multiplication used in deep learning models. TPUs use vast parallelism and matrix multiply units (MXUs) to ...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai emphasized Google’s longstanding commitment to AI innovation, stating, “Google was born for this moment. We have been a pioneer in GPUs for more than a decade.” Pichai then ...

Google recently announced at its I/O event its sixth tensor processing unit (TPU) called Trillium, and according to the company the new processor is designed for powerful next-generation AI models.

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