Tpu is what Nvidia and Google both call their low precision matrix multiply hardware. Your assessment of how the hardware can better be used is just your assess

Tpu is what Nvidia and Google both call their low precision matrix multiply hardware. Your assessment of how the hardware can better be used is just your assessment. The reason they did this is because they realized that a large share of their professional users want this, and they're willing to pay. They'll likely have other versions of the card where the tpus aren't there, so you'll have that option as well. It's not a new paradigm, but it's absolutely new to have this type of computation in a single cycle at these clock rates.