Beyond the CPU: Why AI Needs Specialized Processors Like TPUs

The Inadequacy of General-Purpose CPUs for Modern AI Modern artificial intelligence, particularly deep learning, operates on principles fundamentally different from the tasks for which traditional Central Processing Units (CPUs) were designed. CPUs excel at sequential processing, complex control logic, and managing diverse workloads across various applications. Their architecture, optimized for single-thread performance and latency, features large caches, sophisticated branch predictors, and