GOOGLE DROPPED TWO MORE AI CHIPS — FOUR NEW TPUs IN ONE YEAR

Google introduced TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max on November 9, its third and fourth eighth-generation TPU systems in a single year — a first for the company. The 8tx pairs TPU 8t silicon with fifth-generation AMD EPYC hosts for secure, confidential inference, keeping data and model weights isolated while they are processed; the 8i Max packs two 8i chips into one package, doubling compute, SRAM and high-bandwidth-memory bandwidth for massive context windows.

Google disclosed no pricing, general-availability date or regions for either system. The launch lands as Nvidia, the chip leader Google is chasing, faces the Huang scandal — and as Google's own TPUs now serve nearly 100 customers, none of them named.