Answers.Body: <p>Google has not released the manufacturing details for their TPUs. However, it's suspected that they're produced by either Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing or GlobalFoundries, as these are some of the largest companies in the industry.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Does google manufacture TPUs? I know that google engineers are the ones responsible for the design, and that google is the one using them, but which company is responsible for the actual manufacturing of the chip? </p>
  
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Title: Who manufactures Google's Tensor Processing Units?
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ThreadText: # Who manufactures Google's Tensor Processing Units?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-05-24)
  
  Does google manufacture TPUs? I know that google engineers are the ones responsible for the design, and that google is the one using them, but which company is responsible for the actual manufacturing of the chip?
  
  **Tags:** tensorflow, hardware, google
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-11-07. Score: 3
  
  Google has not released the manufacturing details for their TPUs. However, it's suspected that they're produced by either Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing or GlobalFoundries, as these are some of the largest companies in the industry.
  
  [Source](https://www.recode.net/2016/5/20/11719392/google-ai-chip-tpu-questions-answers)
  
  
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