Space-based data centers
Space-based data centers are data centers launched into Earth orbit (or, in some proposals, placed on the Moon), where satellites carrying AI accelerators draw power from solar arrays and reject heat by…
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SpaceX Starmind
SpaceX Starmind is SpaceX's planned constellation of solar-powered artificial intelligence compute satellites, intended to function as orbital data centers that run AI workloads in space and beam results back…
Starcloud
Starcloud, Inc. is an American space infrastructure startup that builds space-based data centers: satellites carrying data-center-class GPUs that are powered by solar arrays and cooled by radiating waste heat…
Stepper motor
A stepper motor (also called a stepping motor) is an electric motor that converts a sequence of electrical pulses into discrete mechanical steps rather than smooth continuous rotation.
SwitchBot
SwitchBot is a smart home brand that makes affordable home-automation devices designed to retrofit onto existing fixtures rather than replace them, including button pushers, motorized curtain openers, smart…
Systolic array
A systolic array is a parallel computer architecture in which a regular grid of identical, tightly coupled processing elements (PEs) rhythmically pumps data through the array under a global clock, with each PE…
TPU Board
A TPU board (Tensor Processing Unit board) is a printed circuit board (PCB) that houses one or more Tensor Processing Unit chips along with associated memory, power delivery, and interconnect components.
TPU Chip
This article covers the TPU chip and its hardware. For the broader topic, see Tensor Processing Unit (TPU).
TPU Device
A TPU device is a Google-designed application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), the physical Tensor Processing Unit chip and its host hardware
TPU Ironwood
TPU Ironwood (officially TPU v7 or TPU7x) is Google's seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit and the first TPU designed specifically for inference, unveiled at Google Cloud Next 2025 in Las Vegas on April…
TPU Master
The TPU master is the control and coordination role in Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) system that drives the actual TPU computation.
TPU Node
A TPU node is the legacy Google Cloud architecture for accessing Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) hardware, in which a user's virtual machine (VM) runs application code and communicates with a separate
TPU Pod
A TPU Pod is a single Google supercomputer built from many Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips wired directly to each other by a high-speed Inter-Chip Interconnect (ICI) fabric arranged as a 2D or 3D torus, so…
TPU Slice
A TPU slice is a collection of Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips that all sit inside the same Google Cloud TPU Pod and are connected to one another by a high-speed inter-chip interconnect (ICI).
TPU Type
The types of TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) are the successive generations of custom machine-learning accelerator that Google has built since 2015: v1, v2, v3, v4, v5e, v5p, v6e (Trillium), and v7 (Ironwood).
TPU Worker
A TPU worker is a virtual machine (VM) running Linux that has direct access to one or more Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips and executes the actual TPU computation on that attached hardware.
TPU v4
TPU v4 is Google's fourth-generation Tensor Processing Unit, a custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that accelerates machine learning workloads in Google's data centers and on Google Cloud.
TPU v5e
Cloud TPU v5e (sometimes rendered TPU v5e or, internally at Google, TPUv5e) is the fifth-generation, efficiency-optimized member of Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) family.
TPU v5p
TPU v5p (Cloud TPU v5p) is Google's fifth-generation, performance-tier Tensor Processing Unit, a custom AI accelerator that delivers 459 bfloat16 TFLOPS per chip and scales to pods of 8,960 chips (about 4.45…
TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is the world's largest dedicated semiconductor foundry and the company that physically manufactures the overwhelming majority of advanced AI chips, including…
Taalas
Taalas is a Toronto, Canada based AI chip startup that builds "hardwired" or model-specific silicon
TechInsights
TechInsights Inc. is a Canadian technology analysis firm that reverse engineers semiconductors and electronic products and sells the resulting technical and market intelligence by subscription.
Tensor Core
A Tensor Core is a specialized execution unit inside NVIDIA GPUs that computes a small matrix multiplication and accumulation, D = A x B + C
Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)
A Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is a family of custom application-specific integrated circuits developed by Google to accelerate machine-learning computation.
TensorFlow Lite (LiteRT)
TensorFlow Lite, rebranded as LiteRT (short for Lite Runtime) on September 4, 2024, is Google's open-source, on-device inference runtime that runs trained machine-learning models locally on mobile, embedded…
TensorRT
TensorRT is NVIDIA's software development kit (SDK) for high-performance deep learning inference on NVIDIA GPUs.
Tenstorrent
Tenstorrent is a North American artificial intelligence hardware and intellectual property company that designs processors for AI training and inference on the basis of the open-standard RISC-V instruction set…
Tenstorrent Galaxy Blackhole
Tenstorrent Galaxy Blackhole is an AI inference server built by Tenstorrent, the fabless semiconductor company led by chief executive Jim Keller.
Terafab
Terafab (styled "Terafab" on the project's official site, "TERAFAB" in Elon Musk's announcement post, and frequently written "TeraFab" in press coverage) is a planned semiconductor fabrication venture between…
Tesla AI5
Tesla AI5 is a custom artificial intelligence inference chip developed by Tesla, positioned as the successor to the company's AI4 (Hardware 4) self-driving computer.
Tesla Cybercab
The Tesla Cybercab is a two-seat, battery-electric robotaxi built by Tesla, Inc. for its Robotaxi ride-hailing service.
Thermodynamic computing
Thermodynamic computing is a family of computing approaches in which the random thermal fluctuations of a physical system, rather than deterministic switching of transistors, do the work of a computation.
Tokens per second
Tokens per second (TPS) is a key performance metric for measuring the speed of large language model (LLM) inference. It quantifies how many tokens a model can generate or process in one second.
Trillium (TPU v6e)
Trillium, also designated TPU v6e, is the sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit developed by Google for machine learning training and inference workloads on Cloud TPU infrastructure.
Trusted Execution Environments for machine learning
Trusted Execution Environments for machine learning (TEEs for ML, sometimes marketed as "Confidential AI" or "confidential inference") are deployments of hardware-isolated execution environments to run…
UALink
UALink (Ultra Accelerator Link) is an open industry standard for scale-up interconnect between AI accelerators that lets up to 1,024 accelerators inside a single pod read and write each other's memory directly…
Ultra Ethernet
Ultra Ethernet is an open networking specification that reworks Ethernet into a high performance fabric for large AI training clusters and high performance computing, giving operators an interoperable
Untether AI
Untether AI Corp. was a Toronto-based fabless semiconductor startup that designed energy-efficient inference accelerators based on a proprietary "at-memory compute" architecture, in which large arrays of small…
Virtual Reality
Virtual reality (VR) is a computer-generated three-dimensional environment that a user can perceive, navigate and interact with in a way that simulates physical presence.
Volta (microarchitecture)
Volta is a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia and introduced in 2017. It is best known as the architecture of the Tesla V100, the data center accelerator that brought the first generation of Tensor…
Vuzix
Vuzix Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI) is an American maker of waveguide optics and enterprise smart glasses, incorporated in Delaware in 1997 and operated from West Henrietta, New York, which the 10-K calls a…
Waveguide Display
A waveguide display is the optical system that lets a pair of AI glasses show an image without putting a screen in front of the eye.
Wormhole (Tenstorrent)
Wormhole is the second-generation AI accelerator application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed by Tenstorrent, a Toronto-based hardware startup led by chip architect Jim Keller.
Wuji Hand
The Wuji Hand is a five-finger dexterous hand developed by Wuji Tech, a Chinese robotics company that grew out of the Shanghai motor maker Pan Motor.
XREAL
XREAL is a Chinese maker of display-equipped augmented reality eyewear, founded in 2017 as Nreal and renamed in 2023.
Xiaomi (robotics)
Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese multinational technology company whose Robotics Lab, established in Beijing in August 2021, builds quadruped and humanoid robots that by March 2026 were performing real assembly…
Xiaomi AI
Xiaomi AI is the artificial intelligence research, products, and strategy of Xiaomi Corporation, the Beijing-based consumer-electronics and electric-vehicle maker, spanning open-source large language models…
Xiaomi AI Glasses
Xiaomi AI Glasses (小米AI眼镜) are display-less camera-and-audio AI glasses made by Xiaomi, announced and put on sale in China on 26 June 2025 at 1,999 RMB (roughly $296 at the exchange rate of late July 2026)…
Xiaomi XRING O100
Xiaomi XRING O100 is a dedicated AI accelerator designed by Xiaomi for local large-model inference on consumer devices.
YMTC (Yangtze Memory Technologies)
Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. (YMTC, Chinese name 长江存储) is a Chinese memory chipmaker based in Wuhan that designs and manufactures 3D NAND flash memory.
bfloat16
bfloat16 (short for Brain Floating Point Format, sometimes written BF16) is a 16-bit floating-point number format that uses one sign bit, eight exponent bits, and seven mantissa bits
d-Matrix
d-Matrix is a privately held American semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California that builds accelerators, I/O cards and software for AI inference in data centers.
d-Matrix Corsair
Corsair is the first commercial AI accelerator product from d-Matrix, a Silicon Valley AI inference hardware startup based in Santa Clara, California.
d-Matrix Raptor
Raptor is the second-generation AI inference accelerator from d-Matrix, a Santa Clara semiconductor startup, and the first commercial chip built on the company's 3D stacked digital in-memory compute technology
reBot Arm
reBot Arm is an open-hardware desktop robotic-arm series developed by Seeed Studio for robotics education, teleoperation, and embodied-AI experiments.