Google announced the availability of its second-generation Cloud TPUs, purpose-built application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) engineered explicitly to accelerate the immense matrix multiplications of deep neural networks. This deployment offered research laboratories a hyper-performance hardware alternative to NVIDIA GPUs, accelerating the hyper-scale model training wars.
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