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date: '2024-03-04'
description: google's tensor processing unit, custom asic for accelerating machine learning workloads with xla compilation.
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title: TPU
created: '2024-03-04'
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See also: [[thoughts/XLA|XLA]], and [architecture](https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/system-architecture-tpu-vm)