Google Ships Four TPU Variants in One Year
Google adds TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max targeting confidential and memory-intensive AI workloads.
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5 articles · newest firstGoogle’s Suncatcher satellite is online and running Gemma 4
The prototype carries one TPU, generates up to 1 kW, and can power the chip for about twenty minutes.
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Ricursive Intelligence’s Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini on when AI starts designing its own hardware
Ricursive Intelligence, valued at $4 billion, is building AI that designs and improves chips.
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Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1
Google's first Suncatcher orbital data-center test launches October 1 to run Gemini on TPUs in space.
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MaxKernel: Agentic Kernel Generation for TPUs
Researchers open-source MaxKernel, a multi-agent LLM system that generates and optimizes TPU kernels matching expert hand-tuned baselines on JaxBench.
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