Google's New Custom Chip May Not Live Up to the HypeGoogle last week announced the Tensor Processing Unit, a custom application-specific integrated circuit, at Google I/O. TPU was built for machine learning applications and has been running in Google's data centers for more than a year. Google's AlphaGo software, which thrashed an 18-time international Go champion in a match earlier this year, ran on servers using TPUs.
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Google's New Custom Chip May Not Live Up to the Hype
