{"id":116657,"date":"2017-04-06T12:41:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T10:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=116657"},"modified":"2017-04-06T12:42:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T10:42:32","slug":"googles-ai-chip-is-15x-more-powerful-than-cpus-and-gpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/116657-googles-ai-chip-is-15x-more-powerful-than-cpus-and-gpus","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s AI chip is 15x more powerful than CPUs and GPUs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudplatform.googleblog.com\/2017\/04\/quantifying-the-performance-of-the-TPU-our-first-machine-learning-chip.html\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a><\/strong> the performance specifications of its Tensor Processing Unit.<\/p>\n<p>The TPU is Google\u2019s first machine-learning chip and boasts superior performance to Intel server processors and Nvidia\u2019s Tesla K80.<\/p>\n<p>According to Google, the TPU is between 15 and 30-times faster than modern CPUs and GPUs while achieving better power efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>TPUs power the technology underlying Google Image Search, Google Photos, the Google Cloud Vision API, and more.<\/p>\n<p>These custom chips have been running machine learning applications in Google data centres since 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Google-TPU-performance-to-Watt.png\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"813253078\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"slb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-205904\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Google-TPU-performance-to-Watt-640x320.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Google-TPU-performance-to-Watt-640x320.png 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Google-TPU-performance-to-Watt-600x300.png 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Google-TPU-performance-to-Watt-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Google-TPU-performance-to-Watt.png 900w\" alt=\"Google TPU performance to Watt\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/205902-googles-custom-built-processor-is-ridiculously-powerful.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/204748-new-website-for-google-open-source.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">New website for Google Open Source<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has revealed the performance specifications of its Tensor Processing Unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":116659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[1638,24223,24221],"class_list":["post-116657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-hardware","tag-google","tag-processing-power","tag-tpu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}