No, you cannot buy TPUs. You can only buy their usage hours from GCP.

ballenf · on July 29, 2020

I wonder whether the Apple silicon will also feel like "buying usage" or if we'll have low-level enough access to feel like we own it.

I don't think having physical possession of the thing is always the best criteria for whether you really own it.

tsuraan · on July 29, 2020

https://cloud.google.com/edge-tpu/ has a "Buy" button that leads to https://coral.ai/products/ . They appear to be available for purchase?

edit: reading more on the edge-tpu page, they definitely appear to be of limited use compared with the ones available to google's hosted plans.

star-trek-fleet · on July 29, 2020

Edge TPU is not TPU in GCP.

andromeduck · on July 29, 2020

And your point is what exactly?