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Re:TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Mac... by svantana on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:03AM (#35450397)
Yes, Google TPUs are sold to consumers under the Coral brand.

https://coral.ai/products/

Re:TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Mac... by CGamesPlay on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:14AM (#35450473)
This is certainly interesting, but doesn't seem quite like what I want. It only seems to offer "Edge TPUs" which...

> The Edge TPU ... supports only TensorFlow Lite models that are fully 8-bit quantized and then compiled specifically for the Edge TPU.

Re:TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Mac... by mgraczyk on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:28AM (#35450578)
It's a different chip
Re:TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Mac... by versteegen on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:34AM (#35451077)
Clearly; they're tiny and for embedded applications.

They even wrote "The products offered by Google are unrelated to the products offered under the CORAL trademarks" in the page footer.

Re:TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Mac... by jamesralph8555 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:06AM (#35452154)
These things come with a lot of limitations, like not being able to work with 4D and larger tensors, plus the 8 bit quantization. Getting models to run on them is a real pain.
Re:TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Mac... by bufo on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:53AM (#35453301)
This is like saying Fisher Price toy cars are equivalent to F1 cars.