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What is Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)?
A custom chip developed specifically for machine learning tasks. While a GPU is general purpose, a TPU is built from the ground up to handle the specific mathematical operations required by neural networks.
Why this matters to you
Using these chips makes training large AI models faster and more energy efficient than using standard hardware.
How you might hear this
We switched our processing workload to a TPU cluster to reduce the time it takes to train our internal models.
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