TweakTown

Google's AI hardware push could challenge NVIDIA's dominance

Google is in talks with US chipmaker Marvell Technology to develop two new chips: a memory processing unit and a TPU built ...
ZDNet

How work devices may evolve to keep up in the AI era

The emergence of the neural processing unit (NPU) may be heralded as a game changer for personal computers (PCs), but finding the right balance in product design remains critical to deliver what ...
PC Magazine

Tensor Processing Unit

A custom-built AI chip from Google. Introduced in 2016 and used in Google Cloud datacenters, the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is designed for matrix multiplication, which is the type of processing ...
SiliconANGLE

LightSolver debuts ‘laser processing unit’ as alternative to quantum computing and supercomputers

High-performance computing startup LightSolver Ltd. today announced what it says is the world’s first pure “laser-based processing unit,” providing businesses with an alternative to expensive ...