Google announces TPU 8tx for confidential AI and TPU 8i Max for memory-hungry agents
testingcatalog · x · 2026-11-09
Google expanded its eighth-gen TPU lineup with two new systems built on existing silicon. TPU 8tx targets regulated enterprises and governments, pairing TPU 8t silicon with custom AMD CPU hosts and hardware-level confidential computing; Google claims up to 2x TPU 8t performance with near-zero security penalty. TPU 8i Max packs two TPU 8i chips in one package for low-latency inference aimed at agents handling large codebases, long videos, and million-token contexts. Pricing, regions, and GA dates remain unspecified.
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