The Practical AI Digest

AI Hardware: GPUs, TPUs and Beyond

April 28, 2026·25 min
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This episode is all about the specialized hardware that makes modern AI possible. We explain how GPUs became the workhorses of deep learning by offering massive parallelism for matrix math, and how companies like Google went further to build TPUs (Tensor Processing Units) optimized for neural network workloads. You’ll hear about the latest AI chips, from NVIDIA’s powerful GPUs driving large model training, to emerging AI accelerators like Graphcore’s IPU, Cerebras’s wafer-scale engine, and even AI on the edge (Apple’s neural engines, etc.). We discuss what each brings in terms of speed, memory, efficiency, and how they’re deployed, giving a peek into the data centers (and devices) where AI calculations run.

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