TPU

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Noun

TPU (countable and uncountable, plural TPUs)

  1. (uncountable, organic chemistry) Initialism of thermoplastic polyurethane, a type of plastic.
  2. (countable, computer hardware) Initialism of Tensor Processing Unit, a circuit optimized for neural network machine learning.
    Coordinate terms: CPU, GPU
    • 2019, “Scaling Analysis of Specialized Tensor Processing Architectures for Deep Learning Models”, in Witold Pedrycz, Shyi-Ming Chen, editors, Deep Learning: Concepts and Architectures, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 73:
      The GPU and TPU computing resources were used to investigate the influence of hardware-supported quantization on performance of the DNNs.

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Noun

TPU (plural TPU-TPU)

  1. Initialism of tempat pemakaman umum (public cemetery).