{"id":161586,"date":"2023-04-05T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/ai-chip-race-google-says-its-tensor-chips-compute-faster-than-nvidias-a100"},"modified":"2023-04-05T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T21:24:00","slug":"ai-chip-race-google-says-its-tensor-chips-compute-faster-than-nvidias-a100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/ai-chip-race-google-says-its-tensor-chips-compute-faster-than-nvidias-a100","title":{"rendered":"AI chip race: Google says its Tensor chips compute faster than Nvidia\u2019s A100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-chip-race-google-says-its-tensor-chips-compute-faster-than-nvidias-a1002.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It also says that it has a healthy pipeline for chips in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Search engine giant Google has claimed that the supercomputers it uses to develop its artificial intelligence (AI) models are faster and more energy efficient than Nvidia Corporation\u2019s. While processing power for most companies delving into the AI space comes from Nvidia\u2019s chips, Google uses a custom chip called Tensor Processing Unit (TPU).<\/p>\n<p>Google announced its Tensor chips during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic when businesses from electronics to automotive faced the pinch of chip shortage.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>AI-designed chips to further AI development<\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Interesting Engineering<\/em> reported in 2021 that Google used AI to design its TPUs. Google claimed that the design process was completed <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/google-uses-ai-to-design-computer-chips-in-just-6-hours\" title=\"in just six hours\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">in just six hours<\/a> using AI compared to the months humans spend designing chips.<\/p>\n<p>For most things associated with AI these days, product iterations occur rapidly, and the TPU is currently in its fourth generation. As Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/microsoft-millions-supercomputer-open-ai\" title=\"stitched together chips\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">stitched together chips<\/a> to power OpenAI\u2019s research requirement, Google also put together 4,000 TPUs to make its supercomputer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/ai-chip-race-google-says-its-tensor-chips-compute-faster-than-nvidias-a100\">Continue reading \u201cAI chip race: Google says its Tensor chips compute faster than Nvidia\u2019s A100\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It also says that it has a healthy pipeline for chips in the future. Search engine giant Google has claimed that the supercomputers it uses to develop its artificial intelligence (AI) models are faster and more energy efficient than Nvidia Corporation\u2019s. While processing power for most companies delving into the AI space comes from Nvidia\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,6,8,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-robotics-ai","category-space","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}