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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