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TPU (countable and uncountable, plural TPUs)

1. (uncountable, organic chemistry) Initialism of thermoplastic polyurethane, a type of plastic; its applications include 3D printing.
2. (countable, computer hardware, machine learning) Initialism of Tensor Processing Unit, a circuit optimized for neural network machine learning.

   Coordinate terms: CPU, GPU

   • 2019, “Scaling Analysis of Specialized Tensor Processing Architectures for Deep Learning Models”, in Witold Pedrycz, Shyi-Ming Chen, editors, Deep Learning: Concepts and Architectures, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 73:

     The GPU and TPU computing resources were used to investigate the influence of hardware-supported quantization on performance of the DNNs.

   • 2025 July 12, “Amazon weighs further investment in Anthropic to gain edge on AI rivals”, in FT Weekend (Companies & Markets section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:

     However, Anthropic also uses Google's custom AI accelerator chip—a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) called Trillium.