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>The other reason (maybe the dominant reason) to prefer a TPU is to avoid paying for all the GPU functionality that is irrelevant to these workloads (FP32, FP64
by friedman23 9y ago
>The other reason (maybe the dominant reason) to prefer a TPU is to avoid paying for all the GPU functionality that is irrelevant to these workloads (FP32, FP64, graphics-specific functionality, costs of writing graphics drivers that gets bundled into hardware unit prices...)
Often bundling decreases cost. Bundling also has the additional advantage of producing more demand when selling excess capacity a la AWS.
- MR4D 9y agoNot in this case. Google wants a die as efficient as possible All of those take up die space, creating a larger processor. That increases the cost of defects, as well as overall manufacturing costs. For Amazon, you may be right, but for Google, they only want a specific function.