Google (GOOGL) and Broadcom (AVGO) have scored a major hit with their jointly-developed Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) artificial-intelligence chips, even landing a new order from AI start-up Anthropic.

TPUs are Google’s specialized ASICs built exclusively for accelerating tensor-heavy matrix multiplication used in deep learning models. TPUs use vast parallelism and matrix multiply units (MXUs) to ...

Google today introduced its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit, “Ironwood,” which the company said is it most performant and scalable custom AI accelerator and the first designed specifically ...

Google’s system leverages optical circuit switching (OCS) to create direct, low-latency optical paths between TPU chips, minimizing signal conversion losses. They avoid repeated ...

Google has unveiled the sixth generation of its custom Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) AI chip, dubbed Trillium. Announced at the company’s annual I/O developer conference in California, Trillium has ...

Google is reportedly challenging Nvidia's AI chip dominance with its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). Analysts predict a significant increase in TPU production and external sales, potentially ...

Google caused two significant disruptions in the AI chip field last month. The first one was the release of its 7th ...

Google has officially launched its upgraded AI model, Gemini 2.0, delivering enhanced performance and multimodal capabilities while paving the way for the future era of AI agents. Additionally, Google ...

According to a recent Reuters report, Apple's "Apple Intelligence" technology has been rumored to use Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) accelerators for early ...

Google is collaborating with Meta to strengthen the ecosystem of its self-developed AI semiconductor, the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), aiming to counter NVIDIA, the dominant player in Graphics ...

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Apple's choice of Google's homegrown Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) for training was detailed in a technical paper just published by the company. Separately, Apple released a preview version of Apple ...