Does Google’s TPU Investment Make Sense Going Forward?
Google created quite a stir when it released architectural details and performance metrics for its homegrown Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) accelerator for machine learning algorithms last week. But as we (and many of you reading) pointed out, comparing the TPU to earlier “Kepler” generation GPUs from Nvidia was not exactly a fair comparison. Nvidia has done much in the “Maxwell” and “Pascal” GPU generations specifically to boost machine learning performance.
To set the record straight, Nvidia took some time and ran some benchmarks of its own to put the performance of its latest Pascal accelerators, particularly the ones it aims …
Does Google’s TPU Investment Make Sense Going Forward? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.