How TPUs handle increasingly demanding AI workloads

The TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) is a custom chip built to handle large-scale math operations behind the Google products you use every day. Google has designed TPUs from the ground up for running AI models for over a decade, optimizing them to process complex calculations quickly.

• The latest generation of TPU has 2x the bandwidth of the previous generation.
• It can handle computation at the level of 121 exaflops.

Google explains that these small but powerful processors support increasingly demanding AI workloads.