On the power consumption level, TPUs and CPUs are very similar. TPUs are of no use besides matrix multiplications, and Stockfish uses many other types of computation. It’s just not fair to say that Stockfish was faced against 2000 cores.
On the power consumption level, TPUs and CPUs are very similar. TPUs are of no use besides matrix multiplications, and Stockfish uses many other types of computation. It’s just not fair to say that Stockfish was faced against 2000 cores.