← Back to context Comment by skylurk 6 hours ago Sorta? If that was the full story, TPU would not be a thing. 2 comments skylurk Reply adastra22 20 minutes ago TPUs are not fundamentally different or more efficient than NVIDIA hardware. They are just cutting out the middleman. lukeschlather 1 hour ago I'm not an expert in chip design by any means but I think it's fair to say that TPU is a marketing term and it's not substantially different from a GPU like an H100. H100's cores are also called "Tensor Cores."
adastra22 20 minutes ago TPUs are not fundamentally different or more efficient than NVIDIA hardware. They are just cutting out the middleman.
lukeschlather 1 hour ago I'm not an expert in chip design by any means but I think it's fair to say that TPU is a marketing term and it's not substantially different from a GPU like an H100. H100's cores are also called "Tensor Cores."
TPUs are not fundamentally different or more efficient than NVIDIA hardware. They are just cutting out the middleman.
I'm not an expert in chip design by any means but I think it's fair to say that TPU is a marketing term and it's not substantially different from a GPU like an H100. H100's cores are also called "Tensor Cores."