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paulmisttoday at 3:42 PM0 repliesview on HN

> The GPUs were designed for graphics [...] However, because they are designed to handle everything from video game textures to scientific simulations, they carry “architectural baggage.” [...] A TPU, on the other hand, strips away all that baggage. It has no hardware for rasterization or texture mapping.

With simulations becoming key to training models doesn't this seem like a huge problem for Google?