CPU stands for Central Processing Unit. It is the brain of a computer because it handles all the tasks that a user performs on his/her computer. All the arithmetic and logical calculations required to ...

Dan Fleisch briefly explains some vector and tensor concepts from A Student’s Guide to Vectors and Tensors. In the field of machine learning, tensors are used as representations for many applications, ...

In this installment we will investigate how a cloud processing system is structured to address and react to artificial intelligence technologies; how a GPU and CPU (central processing unit) compare ...

Google's expanding Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) strategy is emerging as a serious challenge to Nvidia's long-running dominance in AI accelerators, particularly after a report from revealed that Meta ...

The Tensor G2's AI acceleration enables features like processing photos and translating languages. With it, converting speech to text is 70% faster. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Rick Osterloh casually dropped his laptop onto the couch and leaned back, satisfied. It’s not a mic, but the effect is about the same. Google’s chief of hardware had just shown me a demo of the ...

In a CNET interview, Google executives discuss why they went through the trouble of building a chip for the newest Pixel. Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET News, overseeing a team covering ...

Back in 2015, Google began putting its own custom machine learning accelerator in its data centers, claiming significant improvements over off the shelf gear. Since then, details on the Tensor ...

Like Windows in the PC era, the OS, the operating system, leading the AI, artificial intelligence, era.’ This sentence defines NVIDIA’s GPU, the graphics processing unit. GPUs, which process vast ...