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Given that Groq is basically the TPU spin out Google should have done years ago it shows what a valuable asset TPUs are in Google.

Still this they should spin that out though!

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Groq is very different from TPUs. The difference in memory should be a big clue. (Groq using SRAM built into each compute unit, vs TPUs using HBM more similarly to GPUs)

The founder created TPUs at Google.

> Prior to founding Groq, Jonathan began what became Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) as a 20% project where he designed and implemented the core elements of the first generation TPU chip.

I know, so what? Very smart people might have more than one idea in their careers. He left to pursue one of those.

He did not "create" the TPU. He contributed to the creation of the TPU.

There are 66 authors on the original TPU paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3079856.3080246

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