Who designed the first Google Tensor Processing Unit?
Norman P. Jouppi served as the tech lead and principal architect for Google's Tensor Processing Unit development.
Questions about Tensor Processing Unit
Short answers, pulled from the story.
When was the first generation TPU announced to the public?
The chip was announced in May 2016 at the Google I/O conference when the company said it had been used inside their data centers for over a year.
What are the specifications of the second-generation TPU released in 2017?
The second-generation TPU was announced in May 2017 using 16 GB of High Bandwidth Memory increasing bandwidth to 600 GB/s and performance to 45 teraFLOPS.
Which companies were developing AI accelerators before the TPU was selected?
Three separate groups at Google were developing AI accelerators, with the TPU being the design that was ultimately selected according to Jonathan Ross.
How much power does the Edge TPU consume during operation?
The Edge TPU is capable of 4 trillion operations per second with 2 W of electrical power.