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Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Innovating Machine Learning with TPUs: The Hardware-Software Connection

This chapter explores Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), highlighting their evolution and remarkable performance capabilities. It emphasizes the synergy between hardware and software in optimizing machine learning tasks, particularly through the innovative use of the bfloat16 numeric format.

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