{"id":259381,"date":"2018-05-09T08:59:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T06:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=259381"},"modified":"2018-05-09T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T07:00:58","slug":"google-to-release-third-generation-tpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/259381-google-to-release-third-generation-tpu.html","title":{"rendered":"Google to release third-generation TPU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced that it will launch a third-generation tensor processing unit (TPU) with much higher AI performance, <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/05\/08\/google-to-release-third-generation-of-its-tensor-processing-units-for-faster-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>VentureBeat<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has reported.<\/p>\n<p>Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the new processing unit at the company&#8217;s Google I\/O event in Mountain View, California on 8 May 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Tensor processing units are chips designed to provide efficient performance for artificial intelligence applications.<\/p>\n<p>The chips have been used in Google&#8217;s data centres since 2015 to power various AI-based applications.<\/p>\n<p>Pichai said the new chips will be eight-times faster than the previous generation and have required Google to implement liquid cooling in its data centres for the first time.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/259315-google-launches-auto-complete-sentences-in-gmail.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google launches auto-complete sentences in Gmail<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google will launch a third-generation tensor processing unit with higher AI performance.<\/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":[50641,22807,167,50639,42426],"class_list":["post-259381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-ai-processing","tag-data-centres","tag-google","tag-tensor-processing-unit","tag-tpu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259381"}],"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=259381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259385,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259381\/revisions\/259385"}],"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=259381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}