Skip to main content
The Keyword
Here’s how our TPUs power increasingly demanding AI workloads.
["How can teachers and students use AI?", "What are the newest features in Chrome?", "How can I learn new AI skills?"]

Behind the Google products you use every day are custom chips designed for one job: doing math at massive scale. They're called TPUs, or Tensor Processing Units.

We designed TPUs from the ground up more than a decade ago specifically to run AI models. Basically, it takes a lot of math for AI models to work, and TPUs can do complex math super quickly: The newest generation of TPUs can process 121 exaflops of compute power with double the bandwidth of previous generations.

Learn more about these tiny but mighty processors in the video below.

Related stories

Let’s stay in touch. Get the latest news from Google in your inbox.

Subscribe