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’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 ...

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 ...

Dec 17 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google is working on a new initiative to make its artificial intelligence chips better at running PyTorch, the world’s most widely used AI software framework, in a move ...

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After last week's announcement of a deal that will see Anthropic use Google's tensor processing units, Goldman Sachs analyst Eric Sheridan asked management to elaborate further on Google's custom-chip ...