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Nvidia Titan V can do 110 TFLOPS, 12GB of 1.7 Gb/s Memory [1] and sells for 3,000$. TPU v2 does 180 TFLOPS, 64GB of 19.2Gb/s Memory [2].

That's a heck of a performance boost for a chip that's likely costing google way less than the nvidia flagship.

[1] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-titan-v-110-teraflop...

Re: Machine Learning for Systems and Systems for Machine Learning [pdf]

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Nvidia Titan V can do 110 TFLOPS, 12GB of 1.7 Gb/s Memory [1] and sells for 3,000$. TPU v2 does 180 TFLOPS, 64GB of 19.2Gb/s Memory [2]. That's a heck of a performance boost for a chip that's likely costing google way less than the nvidia flagship. [1] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-titan-v-110-teraflop...

It's not clear to me how programmable the tpu is. I'm sure it's great at convolutions and matrix multiplies. Can it do anything else?

Re: Machine Learning for Systems and Systems for Machine Learning [pdf]

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Nvidia Titan V can do 110 TFLOPS, 12GB of 1.7 Gb/s Memory [1] and sells for 3,000$. TPU v2 does 180 TFLOPS, 64GB of 19.2Gb/s Memory [2]. That's a heck of a performance boost for a chip that's likely costing google way less than the nvidia flagship. [1] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-titan-v-110-teraflop...

It'd be really interesting to know the per-unit math on that.

Designing and taping out a new ASIC isn't cheap.

Presumably Google needs to use a fairly recent process (22nm or better?), which means GlobalFoundaries/TSMC or Samsung (do any of the Chinese native fabs have 22nm yet?). I wonder who us building them?

So many questions...

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