Neural processing unit: Difference between revisions

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=== Motivation for a new unit ===

Whilst GPUs perform far better than CPUs for these tasks, a factor of 10 in efficiency<ref>{{cite web|title=google boosts machine learning with TPU|url=http://techreport.com/news/30155/google-boosts-machine-learning-with-its-tensor-processing-unit}}mentions 10x efficiency</ref>