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by okdood64 298 days ago
> second tier TPU allocation

What exactly does this mean?
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barkingcat 298 days ago
Probably that there are already several generations of TPU hardware - the best ones go to internal use, while the older hardware gets rented out to gcp to amortize the development costs.
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liuliu 293 days ago
That's correct. Unless Zuck is OK with using one-generation older TPU, which is a possibility.
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