> How does Cerebras WSE-3 with 44GB of 'L2' on-chip SRAM compare to Google's TPUs, Tesla's TPUs, NorthPole, Groq LPU, Tenstorrent's, and AMD's NPU designs?
There are TPUs made out of silicon carbide with standard fab.
There is in-flight tensor processing with photons, but that's not quite a TPU.
Yes. Google is famously selling TPUs on prem to big customers (e.g., Anthropic) and Crux AI is now a venture to do just that.
Google coral USB and m.2 devices are TPUs.
"Have you seen any software run on Coral TPUs?"
"No, but I have seen the house that the project built, and it is terrific." ~ some Google director
https://frigate.video
Is a pretty successful open source NVR that used corals when it launched (and many people still use them with it)
Only in marketing name. They're not related otherwise.
Maybe just marketing, but they call the NPUs in their Pixel phones "TPUs"
TPU / neural compute accelerator / Math coprocessor;
"OpenTPU: Open-Source Reimplementation of Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848676 :
> How does Cerebras WSE-3 with 44GB of 'L2' on-chip SRAM compare to Google's TPUs, Tesla's TPUs, NorthPole, Groq LPU, Tenstorrent's, and AMD's NPU designs?
There are TPUs made out of silicon carbide with standard fab.
There is in-flight tensor processing with photons, but that's not quite a TPU.
I think the commenter was asking if Google sells TPU chip hardware to use outside of Google's own infrastructure and cloud.