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In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit

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In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit released on arXiv (ISCA 2017)

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Disclosed the design and measured performance of the first-generation TPU, becoming the reference document for discussions of dedicated accelerators

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