Tensor Processing Unit

This article is about the chip developed by Google. For the smartphone system-on-chip, see Google Tensor. For other devices that provide tensor processing for artificial intelligence, see AI accelerator.
Tensor Processing Unit
Tensor Processing Unit 3.0
DesignerGoogle
Introduced2015[1]
TypeNeural network
Machine learning

Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is an AI accelerator application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) developed by Google for neural network machine learning, using Google's own TensorFlow software.[2] Google began using TPUs internally in 2015, and in 2018 made them available for third-party use, both as part of its cloud infrastructure and by offering a smaller version of the chip for sale.

  1. ^ Jouppi et al, 2017, "In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit", https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04760
  2. ^ "Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)". Google Cloud. Retrieved 20 July 2020.