A single V100 board is vastly smaller than a TPU module with 4 TPU chips. The closest comparison in terms of size would be 1 Volta DGX-1 (8x V100s) compared to

A single V100 board is vastly smaller than a TPU module with 4 TPU chips. The closest comparison in terms of size would be 1 Volta DGX-1 (8x V100s) compared to 2 TPU modules (8x TPU2 chips). Volta DGX-1: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/Data-Center/dgx-1/data-center-products-dgx-1-components-843-u1.jpg https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/Data-Cent... TPU Module: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/tpu-V2-hero.width-1000.png https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ima... And for completeness, this is the size of a single V100: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34446705711_76ab786243_o.jpg https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/34446... You can see that 8x V100s are still more computationally dense than 8x TPU2 chips. Density is a very important factor in datacenter design.