Google TPUs Find Sweet Spot of AI Demand, a Decade After Chip’s Debut

Graphics processing units, or GPUs, the part of the chip market dominated by Nvidia, were created to speed the rendering of graphics — mainly in video games and other visual-effects applications — but turned out to be well-suited to training AI models because they can handle large amounts of data and computations. TPUs, on the other hand, are a type of specialized product known as application specific integrated circuits, or microchips that were designed for a discrete purpose.Google’s deal with Anthropic i ...