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Building an AI Chip Saved Google From Building a Dozen New Data Centers
If each of the world’s Android phones used the new Google voice search for just three minutes a day, these engineers realized, the company would need twice as many data centers... Rather than double its data center footprint, Google instead built its own computer chip specifically for running deep neural networks, called the Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU. -- [wired.com...]
[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 10:04 pm (utc) on Apr 11, 2017]
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