Google broadens its AI hardware portfolio with two new specialized chips

Google unveiled two new variants of its in-house tensor processing units (TPUs) for AI workloads: TPU 8tx, designed with AMD for confidential training and inference with security built into the hardware layer, and TPU 8i Max, which combines two inference-focused TPU 8i chips in a single package to double memory capacity, processing power and bandwidth. Both are part of the company's eighth-generation chips introduced in April and broaden its portfolio to confidential inference and larger memory capacity for large workloads. The launch comes as hyperscalers and AI labs work on their own AI-specific semiconductors to reduce reliance on Nvidia.