Google's new custom ASIC for deep learning will be called........ TPU

[okidna]

Google Built Its Very Own Chips to Power Its AI Bots

Google has designed its own computer chip for driving deep neural networks, an AI technology that is reinventing the way Internet services operate.

This morning, at Google I/O, the centerpiece of the company’s year, CEO Sundar Pichai said that Google has designed an ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, that’s specific to deep neural nets. These are networks of hardware and software that can learn specific tasks by analyzing vast amounts of data. Google uses neural nets to identify objects and faces in photos, recognize the commands you speak into Android phones, or translate text from one language to another. This technology has even begin to transform the Google search engine.

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Google’s called its chip the Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU, because it underpins TensorFlow, the software engine that drives its deep learning services.

This past fall, Google released TensorFlow under an open-source license, which means anyone outside the company can use and even modify this software engine. It does not appear that Google will share the designs for the TPU, but outsider can make use of Google’s own machine learning hardware and software via various Google cloud services.

More : http://www.wired.com/2016/05/google-tpu-custom-chips

 

[dorsetknob]

Google’s called its chip the Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU,

Now where have i heard TPU Before

 

[okidna]

Now where have i heard TPU Before

ASUS website?

 

[Nosada]

Is this where we find out that TPU has always been some sort of giant deep learning experiment a la Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Missing the "kill all humans" part of it