Jeff Dean's Dad Joke About TPU Naming
JeffDean · x · 2026-07-19
Jeff Dean cracked a dry joke regarding TPU naming, wondering if people would enjoy joking about chip quotas more if they were called a "TPU smack." The conversation also touched on the origin of the TPU pod name—the internal codename for the earliest TPU was **Jellyfish**, but due to an excess of marine life names, the team preferred the more fitting term **pod**.
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