>> I wonder if they are using eAsic. If you read the academic literature, they talk about 100x-3000x energy savings with asic vs GPU. So in that light Google'

>> I wonder if they are using eAsic. If you read the academic literature, they talk about 100x-3000x energy savings with asic vs GPU. So in that light Google's 10x improvement sounds low, and could certainly fit an eAsic story. Furthermore, eAsic has fixed wires, but logic is defined via sram configuration(AFAIK) and not fixed, so it could offer a level of programmability .