Google ships four TPU variants in one year, courts ~100 external customers vs Nvidia
The Decoder · rss · 2026-11-09
Google is expanding its TPU 8 family with four variants shipped in a single year, including two new specialized chips: the TPU 8tx keeps sensitive data encrypted even during processing, while the TPU 8i Max doubles compute and memory by packaging two chips together.
With nearly 100 external customers now onboard, Google is increasingly positioning its in-house chips as an alternative to Nvidia's GPUs.
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