Google tensor processing units (TPU)
Google have a custom processing unit, which it says advances computing performance.
Google revealed at its I/O 2016 that it has developed and manufactured its own chip set called a Tensor Processing Unit, a custom designed chip that is made to work with its open source machine learning framework.
The TPU were used to power Deep Mind, that defeated International Go champion Lee Seldom. They are already being used for Street View, Rank Brain and Inbox Smart Reply, and are expected to be deployed for Google Home and Google Assistant as well.
Forget the CPU, GPU Google says its Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU, advances machine learning capability by a factor of three generations.
TPUs deliver an order of magnitude higher performance per watt than all commercially available GPU said Google CEO Sundar Pichai during the company’s I/O developer conference on Wednesday.
