by Angela Guess Frederic Lardinois reports in TechCrunch, “As Google announced at its I/O developer conference today, the company recently started building its own specialized chips to expedite the machine learning algorithms. These so-called Tensor Processing Units (TPU) are custom-built chips that Google has now been using in its own data centers for almost a […]
Nvidia Unveils Powerful New Chip for Machine Learning
by Angela Guess Don Clark reports in The Wall Street Journal, “Nvidia Corp. is stepping up plans to expand beyond computer graphics into the field of artificial intelligence, unveiling an unusual processor for the purpose and a computer that uses it to solve scientific problems at extremely high speed. The company on Tuesday said the […]