Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was the literal job title of the “Hidden Figures” mathematicians who drove the ...

Google’s system leverages optical circuit switching (OCS) to create direct, low-latency optical paths between TPU chips, minimizing signal conversion losses. They avoid repeated ...

Nvidia’s position as the dominant supplier of AI chips may be under threat from a specialised chip pioneered by Google, with reports suggesting companies like Meta and Anthropic are looking to spend ...

Tensor was founded in Silicon Valley as AutoX back in 2016 and focused on building autonomous commercial vehicles and robotaxis. The company began testing autonomous vehicles in California and China ...

Nvidia has asserted that its graphics processing unit (GPU) platform remains a full generation ahead of its competitors, responding to increased attention on Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) in ...

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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 (GOOG) launched Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU that is four times faster than its predecessor and uses 30% less power. Google Cloud grew 34% year-over-year to $15.15B in Q3, the fastest ...

Google has introduced Ironwood, its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), designed for large-scale AI model training, reinforcement learning, and inference. Save my User ID and Password ...

A team of Google researchers have shared a plan for building a machine learning system in space. The AI processing hardware would consist of a network of satellites in low Earth orbit, potentially ...

Alphabet's (GOOG) (GOOGL) Google said its seventh generation Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU, called Ironwood, will be launched for public use in the coming weeks. The chip was unveiled in April for ...