Google’s announcement last week that they developed a custom chip for Deep Learning has created a lot of press and unanswered questions. At the Google I/O developers conference, the company shared that they have been using an internally-developed processor, called a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), for over a year to accelerate Deep Learning applications, from Google Street View to their much-heralded win at the game of Go. Rumors have swirled for years that Google may develop their own processors, potentially based on ARM Holdings V8 and / or IBM OpenPOWER, to displace Intel Xeon server processors. This announcement shows that Google may be more interested in chips that are tailored to accelerate specific workloads, especially for Artificial Intelligence.

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