Google Adds TPU 8tx, 8i Max for Enterprise AI

To meet growing demand for AI inference, Google Cloud on Monday beefed up its Tensor Processing Unit family with two new chips: a more secure version of its TPU 8t accelerator and a higher-capacity version of its TPU 8i inference chip.

The new processors are designed to address two emerging enterprise requirements: stronger protection for sensitive AI workloads and better performance for agentic AI applications with large context windows, said Mark Lohmeyer, vice president and general manager of AI and computing infrastructure at Google Cloud.

The announcements build on Google Cloud’s eighth-generation TPU chips introduced in April. At that time, the company launched TPU 8t for training, which it said delivers up to 2.7 times better training performance than the prior generation, and TPU 8i for inference, which it said offers 80% better inference price-performance.

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