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In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit​ (drive.google.com)
2 points by lorenzhs on April 6, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Figure 2 shows the floor plan; there's a large 256x256 8-bit matrix multiplication unit taking up nearly 1/4 of the die area, and the rest of the chip seems designed to feed it as quickly as possible. It operates at 700MHz and can do a vector-matrix multiplication (1x256 times 256x256) in a single cycle. Neat!

It's a very simple CISC, so there's not a lot of control logic needed (only 2% of die area).

Overall this is very clearly designed for Tensorflow.




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