Google has started building its own custom application - specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chip called
tensor processing units (TPUs), Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said today.
There are also various tools or hardware involved, ranging from
tensor processing units developed by Google to vision processors that enable machine vision operations.
For its part, Google revealed in May that for over a year it had been secretly using its own tailor - made chips, called
tensor processing units, or TPUs, to implement applications trained by deep learning.
A bit of ultra-nerdy, inside - baseball news came when Google announced a second - generation version of the specialized «
tensor processing unit» hardware first announced at last year's I / O.