For the Floating Point nuts amongst us, BFloat16 and its invention* by google is being challenged in a patent dispute.

Ramifications could include sunsetting of Google TPUs, but also the use of Bfloat16 and Bfloat like types in other devices, including:
AMD, Nvidia and Intel GPUs,

Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Apple, Qualcom, Samsung CPUs

General purpose AI accelerators (all of the above + AWS tranium and Inferentia, and dozens of other devices)

Article by @tobiaswrites here: https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/01/10/google_tpu_patent_dispute/