Google broadens its AI hardware portfolio with two new specialized
Google is notching up its chipmaking game as the company seeks to reduce its dependence on chips made by other companies for its cloud computing business.…
Summary
Google is notching up its chipmaking game as the company seeks to reduce its dependence on chips made by other companies for its cloud computing business. Google on Monday unveiled two new variants of its tensor processing units (TPUs), in-house-developed chips meant for AI workloads, that broaden its chip portfolio to additional use cases: confidential inference and more memory capacity for large workloads. The new units, TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max, are part of the company’s eighth generation of chips introduced in April this year, and build on what those chips offered, which was more inference capacity and support for large training requirements. TPU 8tx, designed with AMD, is based on the TPU 8t chip, and is geared specifically for confidentially training and running AI models, Google said in a blog post.
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