{"id":216465,"date":"2025-06-23T17:06:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T22:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/tpu-deep-dive"},"modified":"2025-06-23T17:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T22:06:53","slug":"tpu-deep-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/tpu-deep-dive","title":{"rendered":"TPU Deep Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0yPFBxkOKRY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s dive in and look at TPU internals from the bottom up.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>I\u2019ve been working with TPUs a lot recently and it\u2019s fun to see how they had such different design philosophies compared to GPUs.<\/p>\n<p>The main strongpoint for TPUs is in their scalability. This is achieved through a co-design of both the hardware side (e.g. energy efficiency and modularity) and the software side (e.g. XLA compiler).<\/p>\n<p>To give a brief tldr on TPUs, it\u2019s Google\u2019s ASIC that focuses on two factors: extreme matmul throughput + energy efficiency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s dive in and look at TPU internals from the bottom up. I\u2019ve been working with TPUs a lot recently and it\u2019s fun to see how they had such different design philosophies compared to GPUs. The main strongpoint for TPUs is in their scalability. This is achieved through a co-design of both the hardware side [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216465","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}