Google adds confidential TPU 8tx and dual-chip TPU 8i Max systems
Google announced two eighth-generation TPU systems rather than new base chips. TPU 8tx pairs TPU 8t silicon with 5th Gen AMD EPYC hosts and Boardfly networking for confidential inference; TPU 8i Max combines two TPU 8i chips in one package to double compute, SRAM and HBM bandwidth.
Why it matters: The configurations target two production constraints that generic accelerator comparisons often hide: protecting active model data and fitting very large context workloads within rack and memory limits. They also show system packaging, hosts and networks…