Recent #TPU news in the semiconductor industry

5 months ago

➀ TPU is a specialized computing core for matrix multiplication (TensorCore) connected to a stack of fast memory (HBM);

➁ TensorCore consists of MXU (Matrix Multiplication Unit), VPU (Vector Processing Unit), and VMEM (Vector Memory);

➂ TPU is very fast in matrix multiplication and has high FLOPs/s;

➃ TPU has various network configurations like ICI and DCN for efficient communication.

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8 months ago
➀ The new Google Cloud TPU v6e Trillium was showcased at SC24 without its heatsinks, highlighting Google's custom AI accelerator with improved performance, interconnect, and memory. ➁ The v6e chip offers double the HBM memory from 16GB to 32GB, doubling the bandwidth, and improves INT8 and bfloat16 performance by around 4.6-4.7x compared to the v5e version. ➂ The new generation quadruples the interconnect bandwidth from two 100Gbps links to four 200Gbps links, and the inter-chip interconnect bandwidth more than doubles.
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9 months ago

➀ Computing power is an important indicator of a computer's information processing capability, with AI computing power focusing on AI applications, commonly measured in TOPS and TFLOPS, and provided by dedicated chips such as GPU, ASIC, and FPGA for algorithm model training and inference.

➁ AI chip accuracy is a way to measure computing power level, with FP16 and FP32 used in model training, and FP16 and INT8 used in model inference.

➂ AI chips typically use GPU and ASIC architectures. GPUs are the key components in AI computing due to their advantages in computation and parallel task processing.

➃ Tensor Core, an enhanced AI computing core compared to the parallel computation performance of Cuda Core, is more focused on the deep learning field and accelerates AI deep learning training and inference tasks through optimized matrix operations.

➄ TPUs, a type of ASIC designed for machine learning, stand out in high energy efficiency in machine learning tasks compared to CPUs and GPUs.

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10 months ago
➀ Google has unveiled its AlphaChip AI-assisted chip design technology, which promises to speed up chip layout design and make it more optimal. ➁ The technology has been used to design Google's TPUs and has been adopted by MediaTek. ➂ AlphaChip uses reinforcement learning to optimize chip layouts, potentially revolutionizing the chip design process.
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11 months ago
➀ GPU is widely used in early AI projects due to its maturity compared to other options. ➁ Google's TPU is a competitive alternative to GPU, optimized for TensorFlow and offering significant energy efficiency improvements. ➂ GPU's future applications are likely to focus on VR/AR, cloud gaming, and cloud server acceleration for specific big data analysis.
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