CNBC

Google's decade-long bet on custom chips is turning into company's secret weapon in AI race

Google has spent more than a decade developing silicon, a bet that's paying off in a big way from the AI boom. The company says increased demand for its Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs, is one reason ...
Hexus

Google benchmarks its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips

As Google relies heavily on compute-intensive machine learning for its core activities it has designed and rolled out its own Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) accelerator chips in recent years. The need ...
The Motley Fool

Google Unveils 2 New AI Chips to Take on Nvidia

In a blog post released on Wednesday, Amin Vahdat, senior VP and chief technologist for AI and infrastructure, unveiled the eighth generation of Google's tensor processing unit (TPU), the company's ...
The Next Platform

With TPU 8, Google Makes GenAI Systems Much Better, Not Just Bigger

Here is how you know that GenAI training and GenAI inference are very different computing and networking beasts, and diverging more with each passing day: Google has just forked its Tensor Processing ...
GIGAZINE

Google has announced its 8th generation of AI processing chips, the TPU 8t, which is specialized for training, and the TPU 8i, which is specialized for inference, with twice ...

Below are actual photos of the TPU 8i (left) and TPU 8t (right) posted by CEO Sundar Pichai. A key feature of the 8th generation TPU is that it is designed to be divided into the TPU 8t, which is ...