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A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

Dataflow Processing Unit (DPU) is the product of Wave Computing, a Silicon Valley company which is revolutionizing artificial intelligence and deep learning with its dataflow-based solutions. In Google I/O’17, Google announced its cloud TPU (also known as TPU2), which can handle both training and inference.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

By the end of 2012, it was up to 82%. Some of those innovations, like Amazon’s cloud computing business, represented enormous new markets and a new business model. The market was maturing. From 2000 to 2011, the percentage of US adults using the internet had grown from about 60% to nearly 80%. These companies did continue to innovate.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

Cloud computing? ” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. And just as we started to complain that the crypto miners were snapping up all of the affordable GPU cards, cloud providers stepped up to offer access on-demand. So we can ride that wave of publicity.)