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Meaning of TPU | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Initialism of thermoplastic polyurethane, a type of plastic; its applications include 3D printing.
  2. Initialism of Tensor Processing Unit, a circuit optimized for neural network machine learning.

Equivalents

Français TPU

Examples

“The GPU and TPU computing resources were used to investigate the influence of hardware-supported quantization on performance of the DNNs.”
“However, Anthropic also uses Google's custom AI accelerator chip—a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) called Trillium.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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