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I didn't know you can you buy Google TPUs now?

• knowitnone3 11mo ago
  You can buy older less capable TPUs https://www.seeedstudio.com/Coral-USB-Accelerator-p-2899.html https://www.seeedstudio.com/Coral-USB-Accelerator-p-2899.htm...
  • fooblaster 11mo ago
    these are not remotely like anything Google uses in the datacenter, even a decade ago.
  • i80and 11mo ago
    The Coral TPUs are closer if anything to what's in Pixel phones. In particular they're limited to iirc 8-bit integer types, which puts them in a very different category of applications compared to the kind of TPUs being talked about here.
• mattlondon 11mo ago
  You can pay to use them https://cloud.google.com/tpu https://cloud.google.com/tpu
• amypetrik8 11mo ago
  What you really want to buy is a Ming Mecca chip. Original model came out around 2003, but they've been iterating. These things are bigger than AMD or nvidia silicon, actually even much larger than a gigantic Cerebras wafer, typically 500-900 million USD in price. As you could guess, Ming Mecca is not broadly publicized, historically used for NSA crypto cracking although now adapted to AI and used for data crunching from gathered messages. More recently all those gathered messages have been used for training strategic /tactical intelligence developments to oversee and deploy resources optimally via a cluster of, at least last I heard, 18 Ming Mecca v7 chips