Posted 4/9/2024, 11:36:03 AM
Google Unveils New AI Chip and Arm-Based CPU for Cloud, Promising Major Performance Gains
- Google unveiled new version of its AI chip (TPU v5p) and new Arm-based CPU (Axion)
- TPU v5p offers 2x raw performance vs prior gen TPUs; Axion 30% better than Arm chips, 50% better than x86
- Axion meant to make it easy for customers to bring workloads to Arm without re-architecting apps
- Axion being used internally at Google and will be publicly available on Google Cloud later this year
- TPU v5p now generally available on Google Cloud