Scientists in China have developed a tensor processing unit (TPU) that uses carbon-based transistors instead of silicon – and they say it's extremely energy efficient. When you purchase through links ...

A custom-built AI chip from Google. Introduced in 2016 and used in Google Cloud datacenters, the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is designed for matrix multiplication, which is the type of processing ...

The Tensor G2's AI acceleration enables features like processing photos and translating languages. With it, converting speech to text is 70% faster. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

The Google Tensor G5 has been announced, and the company claims that it brings the biggest leap in performance yet, as far as Tensor chips are concerned. This is the first TSMC-made Tensor chip with a ...

There are central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and even data processing units (DPUs) – all of which are well-known and commonplace now. GPUs in particular have seen a ...