'One small step for TPUs': Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces Project Suncatcher to test AI compute in Space

Mountainview (California) [US], September 25 (ANI): Google on Thursday announced that its Project Suncatcher is scheduled to embark on its first test in orbit, launching a prototype satellite to evaluate how Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) perform in space.Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is a custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed by Google Cloud to accelerate artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a post on X said, "Can our TPUs survive and operate in space? Well…