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Again, Google is appropriating the word "Tensor" for its own use. This is inappropriate: Words are for everyone to use and "tensor", like "vector", is no exception. For the uninitiated, tensor describes a field of vectors and is not at all bound to the AI. To the point, tensors were invented by italian mathematician Ricci-Curbastro to aid Einstein express his famous General Relativity in a single equation in an epoch were the computer hadn't even been invented, much less AI. The other words are "Processor" and "Unit", also, I believe, of general use. So should companies also have rights to CPU - Code Processing Unit, FPU - Floating Point Unit and GPU - Graphics Processing Unit? Of course not! So why would TPU - Tensor Processing Unit be the exception? Please, let's recover TPU for general use. [[Special:Contributions/181.12.78.206|181.12.78.206]] ([[User talk:181.12.78.206|talk]]) 19:34, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

It would be useful for the article to, somewhere, include a link to [[Tensor (machine_learning)]], regardless of whether or not a TPU is Google-specific. I had never heard of a TPU (or a Tensor) until today, so I expected that, upon finding this article, it would make it clear what a Tensor is as well as what a TPU is. [[User:Gmporr|Gmporr]] ([[User talk:Gmporr|talk]]) 17:46, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

:I went ahead and made a change (made the article's first word "Tensor") a wikilink. But as it's now doubly highlighted (bold and typical wikilink purple highlight) it may not be readily clear to readers that it's a wikilink. So I'd value other editors' changes if there seems to be a better place in the article to include the link. [[User:Gmporr|Gmporr]] ([[User talk:Gmporr|talk]]) 18:30, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

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