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TPU

5 notes carry this tag — 3 claims, 1 capture, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  The heart was always a pump
  essay draft 2026-07-13 · systolic-array, TPU, hardware, memory-bandwidth, roofline

Everything else

• Systolic arrays saw 1980s hardware hype (Warp, iWarp), then lay largely dormant for roughly 35 years until Google's TPU revived the architecture
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · systolic-array, history-of-computing, hardware, dormant-idea-resurfaces, TPU
• Google's TPU paper calls its 65,536-MAC systolic matrix-multiply unit 'the heart of the TPU,' using systolic execution to cut Unified Buffer reads/writes
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · TPU, systolic-array, hardware, matrix-multiply, google
• Despite a purpose-built systolic matrix engine, four of Google's six production TPU neural-net workloads are memory-bandwidth-bound, not compute-bound
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · TPU, roofline, memory-bandwidth, hardware, AI-inference
• The systolic array — a heart-named 1978 idea became the 'heart' of the AI chip
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · systolic-array, TPU, hardware, matrix-multiply, roofline