Yes!
But The Article explains what changes did they have to make to make it a dedicated processor for Neural Networks.
Also, If you have time, please let me know what can I do to make the article better.
Yes the aspect that the Google affair with their TPU, more flexible, whilst not fully general purpose, I'd call them niche purpose. A decade ago we would of just called them co-processors. Time change, buzzwords change, but 8 bits will still be 8 bits.