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Google introduces TPU 8tx and 8i Max to broaden its inference options
· Aster editorial team
AI-generated imageGoogle announced TPU 8tx, a confidential-inference system built on the same silicon as TPU 8t and paired with servers using fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors. The company says it can deliver up to twice the latency improvement over 8t with a near-zero performance penalty from confidential computing. It also introduced TPU 8i Max, which combines two 8i chips and doubles compute, SRAM, and HBM bandwidth compared with 8i.
Why it matters
The two configurations target different workloads: protecting data during inference and supporting models with larger context windows or heavier compute needs.
For the technical crowd
TPU 8tx includes hardware-backed confidential computing. TPU 8i Max combines two 8i chips and, according to Google, doubles compute, SRAM, and HBM bandwidth.
· Source: Google
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