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Accelerator Chip

Accelerator Chip in Machine Learning

Accelerator Chip

An accelerator chip is a specialized hardware designed to speed up computations, especially for machine learning and AI tasks. These chips, such as GPUs and TPUs, are optimized for handling large-scale parallel processing, reducing the training time for deep learning models and improving efficiency.

For example, consider matrix multiplication in deep learning:

$$ C = A \times B $$

Accelerator chips optimize this by parallelizing the matrix operations, significantly reducing the time required for large datasets and high-dimensional models.

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