AI Accelerator
An AI accelerator is any specialised hardware designed to run machine learning workloads faster and more efficiently than a general-purpose processor.
What is AI Accelerator?
The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units in phones and custom chips from cloud providers. Accelerator supply is a major constraint on AI development and a focus of industrial and trade policy.
How it works
Accelerators maximise parallel arithmetic and memory bandwidth, often using low-precision number formats.
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