Tricky Bits with Rob and PJ
Rob Wyatt and PJ McNerney discuss the latest and greatest news in the tech world and to figure out where things have been, where they are, and hopefully where they are going.
Tricky Bits with Rob and PJ
CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, Neural Engines, and the Rest
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CPUs have been around for forever as the heart of computers....then came GPUs to enable cool real time graphics...and later bitcoin mining...then some clever folks figured out how train AIs on them...which leads to a new explosion of processing units tuned specifically for AI development (see Google's TPUs, Apple's Neural Engines, Meta's MTIAs).
Why do we have them all? And what the heck do they all mean? And why should we care?
Come explore a bit of the magic and differences amongst these different types of processing units that is powering your phones, games, and the explosion in AI development!