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		CalChris on May 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Many X86-64 Instructions Are There Anyway? The TPU is an ASIC. The result is called a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), a custom ASIC we built specifically for machine learning. https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/05/Google-supercha...

deepnotderp on May 1, 2017 [–]

Perhaps it's a confusion of terminology, because most people I know would call it as asip. It has the flexibility to implement any linear operation after all.

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