{"id":8517,"date":"2018-07-09T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=8517"},"modified":"2018-05-11T10:18:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T18:18:34","slug":"artificial-intelligence-chips-google-s-tpu-3-0-offers-8x-performance-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/artificial-intelligence-chips-google-s-tpu-3-0-offers-8x-performance-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Chips: Google ‘s TPU 3.0 Offers 8x Performance Boost"},"content":{"rendered":"

In May, Google announced the third generation release of a new chip called a TPU (Tensor Processing Unit)<\/a>.\u00a0 The first generation of TPUs was release in 2016, followed up shortly afterward with a speed-enhanced TPU version 2.0.\u00a0 The newest TPU 3.0 is 8 times faster than the TPU 2.0 and can handle 100 petaFLOPs or higher, putting it in the range of a supercomputer performance.\u00a0 But all that computational power makes the chips very hot — they require a special copper-plated cooling system to keep them from overheating.<\/p>\n

Google plans to offer TPU processors via a cloud service.\u00a0 Currently users can rent a board of TPUs for their projects.\u00a0 Google expects to start rolling out the TPU version 3.0 in the cloud soon.<\/p>\n

TPUs are optimized to run Google’s TensorFlow algorithm, used primarily for machine learning and artificial intelligence.\u00a0 With this approach, Google is trying to own the entire stack.\u00a0 Google recently reorganized and aligned<\/a> a number of projects that it had all under the umbrella that it is now calling “Google AI.” If Google’s platform can become advanced enough to attract users, they can lock developers into it. Competition in the same AI chip business is very active from Nvidia, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.<\/p>\n

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In May, Google announced the third generation release of a new chip called a TPU (Tensor Processing Unit).\u00a0 The first generation of TPUs was release in 2016, followed up shortly afterward with a speed-enhanced TPU version 2.0.\u00a0 The newest TPU…<\/span><\/p>\n

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