> So the only advantage of the TPU is it's a simpler and more specialized asic And everything that entails: lower energy consumption, higher throughput, lower

> So the only advantage of the TPU is it's a simpler and more specialized asic And everything that entails: lower energy consumption, higher throughput, lower cost at volume, higher profits for GCP, etc. > Google didn't break any new ground in terms of training perf? Relative to GPUs, sure, but I can't say how well they stack up against other custom ASICs for DL applications.