I wonder if Chinese companies will use (or be allowed to use) TPUs. It seems like a pretty obvious way to have the NSA scoop up any Chinese AI advancements China may want to keep secret.
They are all set up to spy on us. Deep state. They hunt sys admins. If you're here, you're a target.
You are a conspiracy theorist.
> Google can do the sort of spying the US government can't constitutionally do, then hand that over to the government, constitutionally
This is an agenda-driven redefinition of the word "spy" that I find disingenuous in the extreme.
> It's all stagecraft. Same for Apple, Amazon, Intel, etc. Eric Schmidt runs HRCs campaign. Al Gore is on Apple's board.
Firstly: Eric Schmidt founded a company designed to legally channel lots of money via analytics expertise into his favorite candidate, like every rich person does under the current set of laws. Neither of us has to like it, but he did not "run her campaign" and if they actually did? Wow, not a great job there.
As for Al Gore?
I've worked with Al Gore. He did some advisory work for my financial data startup, as part of our first round's venture firm. Our data was some of the most valuable data about consumers that can possibly exist, and had incredible applications for both surveillance and law enforcement.
To the best of my knowledge, we were never pressured to hand over a byte to anyone. Quite the opposite. I specifically remember a conversation where he mentioned user data privacy was the single most important priority he felt we could have.
So between my lying eyes, ears, and email history and your wild gesticulations about the evil overlordship, I'm gonna have to lean towards my own personal experience.
Unless, of course, you got some actual evidence and not a room full of old coffee cups and red string up on the walls.
How does the TPU design offer improved performance? By leveraging IP or fabrication improvements?
There are host of Chinese companies developing similar processors.
Becomes a chicken-and-egg problem.
Google was able to solve it by designing TPUs for internal usage first, therefore reaching minimum scale, and then making changes and offering it publicly.
So you'd need to be:
1) Chip designer
2) Massive internal user
3) Cloud service provider
I don't see any other company that has all 3. Amazon has (3), and maybe (1) if they hired the right people. Microsoft could have enough (2) to justify it, but they're going the way of FPGAs.