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== adding Nvidia specific solutions? ==
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Again, TPU's are a type of processor dedicated to computing Tensors and are manufactured by multiple vendors, as is the case with CPUs and GPUs. TPUs are NOT specific to Google, thus this article needs to me made generic to incorporate info on TPUs from other vendors as well. Thanks. [[Special:Contributions/181.12.115.177|181.12.115.177]] ([[User talk:181.12.115.177|talk]]) 04:22, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
:The product name "Tensor Processing Unit" '''is''' specific to Google. However products that provide tensor processing are not specific to Google; see [[AI accelerator]]. A possible cause of confusion is the "tensor cores" used by nVidia, including [[Volta (microarchitecture)]]. This confusing, but to my knowlegde Google is the only company that uses the specific wording "Tensor processing unit ". [[User:Mrjulesd|<span style="color:orange;">--Jules</span>]] [[User talk:Mrjulesd|(Mrjulesd)]] 10:47, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
The article says "Google's TPUs are proprietary and are not commercially available". But they '''are''' commercially available. https://coral.withgoogle.com/docs/accelerator/get-started/ . I've updated the article. [[User:Sayitclearly|Sayitclearly]] ([[User talk:Sayitclearly|talk]]) 13:43, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
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)
== August 2021: Google Nest cameras will include TPUs ==
Worth adding that the 2021 refresh of Google Nest Cams (including the Nest Doorbell, no longer called Nest Hello) will include TPUs? the TPUs will allow immediate processing and alerting. (Also offline recording and storing, due to battery inclusion). This section by DAVIDBSPALDING, but using work computer, so can't sign in to Wiki. -- [[Special:Contributions/208.242.14.199|208.242.14.199]] ([[User talk:208.242.14.199|talk]]) 15:34, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
== Products ==
The table is cryptic.
Perhaps "Mib" and "W" could be use full names.
Bill
[[User:W102102|W102102]] ([[User talk:W102102|talk]]) 09:57, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
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