Google Ships Four TPU Variants in One Year
Original title: Google ships four TPU variants in one year as it ramps up competition with Nvidia
Google adds TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max targeting confidential and memory-intensive AI workloads.
Google released two new variants in its eighth-generation TPU lineup, bringing total to four shipped in one year. TPU 8tx enables confidential computing with data protected during processing. TPU 8i Max doubles compute and memory in same rack. Framework support like TorchTPU open sourced. Nearly 100 external customers.
- Targets confidential data and memory-hungry apps
- Same silicon but different configs
- Supports PyTorch, vLLM, SGLang
- Nearly 100 external TPU customers
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Google is expanding its TPU 8 family with two specialized variants: the TPU 8tx keeps sensitive data encrypted even during processing, while the TPU 8i Max doubles compute power and memory by placing two chips on a single package. With nearly 100 external customers now on board, Google is increasingly positioning its in-house chips as an alternative to Nvidia's GPUs.
By Maximilian Schreiner · the-decoder.com
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