Infrastructure
TPU
TPU
Infrastructure· Intermediate
Definition
Tensor Processing Unit — Google's custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed specifically for neural network workloads. TPUs offer higher throughput and energy efficiency than GPUs for training large models, particularly transformers. Available via Google Cloud.
Enterprise Context
Enterprises training large models at scale evaluate TPUs vs. GPUs vs. custom ASICs for total cost and throughput. TPUs are particularly efficient for JAX-based training workloads.
Tags
#hardware#compute#training
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