TPU transformation: A look back at 10 years of our AI-specialized chips

Google celebrates a decade of AI advancement with its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), specialized chips that have evolved alongside AI demands. The latest sixth-generation TPU, Trillium, is designed with improved power and efficiency to further revolutionary AI model training.

• Google's TPUs were deployed internally in 2015.
• Over 100,000 TPU v1 chips supported various Google services.
• TPU v2 was a leap towards a training supercomputer.
• Trillium TPUs offer a 4.7x performance improvement.
• Cloud TPUs are extensively used by AI startups and unicorns.