Reply to post: I thought the idea of these custom FPUs was to lower precision

Google boffins tease custom AI math-chip TPU2 stats: 45 TFLOPS, 16GB HBM, benchmarks

John Smith 19 Gold badge
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I thought the idea of these custom FPUs was to lower precision

Single color images are roughly 0-255 and telephone sound is 12 bit total (Phone CODECs have non linear sampling over the 8 bit range).

So smaller range, more of them.

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