TPU

See also: tpu

English

Noun

TPU (countable and uncountable, plural TPUs)

  1. (uncountable, organic chemistry) Initialism of thermoplastic polyurethane, a type of plastic.
  2. (countable, computer hardware, machine learning) Initialism of Tensor Processing Unit, a circuit optimized for neural network machine learning.
    Coordinate terms: CPU, GPU
    • 2019, “Scaling Analysis of Specialized Tensor Processing Architectures for Deep Learning Models”, in Witold Pedrycz, Shyi-Ming Chen, editors, Deep Learning: Concepts and Architectures, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 73:
      The GPU and TPU computing resources were used to investigate the influence of hardware-supported quantization on performance of the DNNs.
    • 2025 July 12, “Amazon weighs further investment in Anthropic to gain edge on AI rivals”, in FT Weekend, Companies & Markets, page 10:
      However, Anthropic also uses Google's custom AI accelerator chip—a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) called Trillium.

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Indonesian

Noun

TPU (plural TPU-TPU)

  1. initialism of tempat pemakaman umum (“public cemetery”)
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