<story><title>Google&apos;s First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture</title><url>https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/googles-first-tpu-architecture</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hipadev23</author><text>How is it that Google invented the TPU and Google Research came up with &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; paper on LLM and NVDA and AI startup companies have captured ~100% of the value</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s an old joke explanation about Xerox and PARC, about the difficulty of &amp;quot;pitching a &amp;#x27;paperless office&amp;#x27; to a photocopier company&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;In Google&amp;#x27;s case, an example analogy would be pitching making something like ChatGPT widely available, when that would disrupt revenue from search engine paid placements, and from ads on sites that people wouldn&amp;#x27;t need to visit.  (So maybe someone says, better to phase it in subtly, as needed for competitiveness, but in non-disruptive ways.)&lt;p&gt;I doubt it&amp;#x27;s as simple as that, but would be funny if that was it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google&apos;s First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture</title><url>https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/googles-first-tpu-architecture</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hipadev23</author><text>How is it that Google invented the TPU and Google Research came up with &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; paper on LLM and NVDA and AI startup companies have captured ~100% of the value</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tw04</author><text>Because Google can’t focus on a product for more than 18 months if it isn’t generating several billion in PROFIT.  They are punch drunk on advertising.</text></comment>