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TPU

Role Reversal: Google Teases Nvidia’s Blackwell as It Softens TPU Rivalry

Customers now have access to Google’s homegrown hardware — its Axion CPU and latest Trillium TPU — in its Cloud service.  At the same time, Google gave customers a ...Full Article

Google’s Next TPU Looms Large as Company Wagers Future on AI

Google is hedging its future on artificial intelligence, and is swinging at the fences to prove it is up to speed with rival Microsoft, which has unexpectedly emerged as ...Full Article

Google’s New AI-Focused ‘A3’ Supercomputer Has 26,000 GPUs

Cloud providers are building armies of GPUs to provide more AI firepower. At its annual Google I/O developer conference today, Google announced an AI supercomputer with 26,000 GPUs. The ...Full Article

Google Cloud’s New ML Hub Is Largest in World, Mostly Carbon-Free

Almost exactly a year ago, Google launched its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) v4 chips at Google I/O 2021, promising twice the performance compared to the TPU v3. At the ...Full Article

Hailo Adds Acceleration Module to its AI Edge Processor

Hailo, the up-and-coming AI chip startup, released an acceleration module this week that allows its Hailo-8 processor to be plugged into edge devices. The Israeli chipmaker is also targeting ...Full Article

Nvidia Unifies AI, HPC Workloads in Datacenters

Nvidia’s latest cloud server platform is intended as a “building block,” in the reference design sense, to support AI training and inference along with HPC workloads such as simulations. ...Full Article
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