What Is a DPU, or Data Processing Unit, and How Does It Work? The best way to think about a DPU, says Jim McGregor, principal analyst at TIRIAS Research, is as “an internal or overhead workload ...

Online analytical processing databases speed up the multi-dimensional queries common in business intelligence applications.

We look at Google’s TPUs – tensor processing units – and ask what makes them different to CPUs, GPUs and DPUs, as well as how you can take advantage of them in AI processing.