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What sat at the heart of Google's first published datacenter TPU?

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  1. A 64-bit desktop CPU
  2. A mechanical relay bank
  3. A 65,536-unit 8-bit MAC array

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  1. Google Research: In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit research.google/pubs/in-datacenter-performance-analysis-of-a-tensor-processing-unit Checked 2026-10-10.

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