Google has launched its latest TPU v4 accelerator, designed specifically for artificial intelligence workloads. The new TPU offers a significant performance gain over the previous generation, making it an attractive option for businesses and researchers.
Competing with NVIDIA
Google's move is seen as a direct challenge to NVIDIA, which has been dominating the AI accelerator market. According to industry insiders, the TPU v4 offers a 40% performance gain over NVIDIA's comparable offerings.
The TPU v4 has a 30% lower power consumption than the previous generation.
Our goal is to make AI more accessible and affordable, said Google CEO, Sundar Pichai.