{"id":205902,"date":"2017-04-06T09:10:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T07:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=205902"},"modified":"2017-04-06T09:13:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T07:13:34","slug":"googles-custom-built-processor-is-ridiculously-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/205902-googles-custom-built-processor-is-ridiculously-powerful.html","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s custom-built processor is ridiculously powerful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudplatform.googleblog.com\/2017\/04\/quantifying-the-performance-of-the-TPU-our-first-machine-learning-chip.html\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a><\/strong> the performance specifications of its Tensor Processing Unit.<\/p>\n<p>The TPU is Google&#8217;s first machine-learning chip and boasts superior performance to Intel server processors and Nvidia&#8217;s Tesla K80.<\/p>\n<p>According to Google, the TPU is between 15 and 30-times faster than modern CPUs and GPUs while achieving better power efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>TPUs power the technology underlying Google Image Search, Google Photos, the Google Cloud Vision API, and more.<\/p>\n<p>These custom chips have been running machine learning applications in Google data centres since 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Google-TPU-performance-to-Watt.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-205904\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Google-TPU-performance-to-Watt-640x320.png\" alt=\"Google TPU performance to Watt\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Google-TPU-performance-to-Watt-640x320.png 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Google-TPU-performance-to-Watt-600x300.png 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Google-TPU-performance-to-Watt-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Google-TPU-performance-to-Watt.png 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/204748-new-website-for-google-open-source.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">New website for Google Open Source<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has revealed the performance specifications of its Tensor Processing Unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":205906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[167,22845,42234,42426],"class_list":["post-205902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-google","tag-machine-learning","tag-specifications","tag-tpu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205920,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205902\/revisions\/205920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}