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A TPU is supposed to do more Tensor ops TOPS/wHr than a GPU. Though, some GPUs have a TPU. For example Nvidia DLSS3 is a TPU. "A PCIe Coral TPU Finally Works
by westurner 1y ago
A TPU is supposed to do more Tensor ops TOPS/wHr than a GPU.
Though, some GPUs have a TPU. For example Nvidia DLSS3 is a TPU.
"A PCIe Coral TPU Finally Works on Raspberry Pi 5" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38310063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38310063
"ARM adds neural accelerators to GPUs" (2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44919793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44919793
From "The von Neumann bottleneck is impeding AI computing?" (2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45398473 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45398473 :
> How does Cerebras WSE-3 with 44GB of 'L2' on-chip SRAM compare to Google's TPUs, Tesla's TPUs, NorthPole, Groq LPU, Tenstorrent's, and AMD's NPU designs?
Tensor Processing Unit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_Processing_Unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_Processing_Unit
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- westurner 1y agoTo make electronic and photonic TPUs (and CPUs, GPUs, and QPUs) faster, we should make them out of graphene and carbon nanotubes and other allotropes of carbon (instead of photoresisting and doping silicon and copper)