Are there TPUs outside Google Cloud?

Yes. Google is famously selling TPUs on prem to big customers (e.g., Anthropic) and Crux AI is now a venture to do just that.

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sschueller 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Google coral USB and m.2 devices are TPUs.

	▲	Archit3ch 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		"Have you seen any software run on Coral TPUs?" "No, but I have seen the house that the project built, and it is terrific." ~ some Google director
	▲	boulos 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Only in marketing name. They're not related otherwise.

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goda90 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe just marketing, but they call the NPUs in their Pixel phones "TPUs"

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westurner 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

TPU / neural compute accelerator / Math coprocessor;

"OpenTPU: Open-Source Reimplementation of Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44111452

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848676 :

> How does Cerebras WSE-3 with 44GB of 'L2' on-chip SRAM compare to Google's TPUs, Tesla's TPUs, NorthPole, Groq LPU, Tenstorrent's, and AMD's NPU designs?

There are TPUs made out of silicon carbide with standard fab.

There is in-flight tensor processing with photons, but that's not quite a TPU.

	▲	hackernudes 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think the commenter was asking if Google sells TPU chip hardware to use outside of Google's own infrastructure and cloud.