Google is Developing its Own Chip for Artificial Intelligence

Google is unveiling more and more about their revolutionary software, including the innovations behind the search Search and Street View functions. However, they haven't been as forthcoming in terms of their hardware. Google just unveiled one of its hardware brainchilds: the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). The TPU is a custom ASIC created specifically for Google's open source software library for machine learning, TensorFlow. We've been running TPUs inside our data centers for more than a year, and have found them to deliver an order of magnitude better-optimized performance per watt for machine learning.