Google has added two systems, TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max, to its eighth-generation TPU portfolio alongside TPU 8t and TPU 8i, which were first unveiled in April 2026. The TPU 8tx pairs TPU 8t silicon with custom AMD CPU hosts for confidential inference, and Google claims up to 2x lower latency than TPU 8t with a near-zero performance penalty. The TPU 8i Max puts two TPU 8i chips on one package, delivering double the compute, SRAM and HBM bandwidth of the TPU 8i. Amin Vahdat, Google's chief technologist for AI and Infrastructure, described the pair as answers to hardware-level data security and million-token context scale.
Google says the TPU 8i Max fits twice the silicon into the existing rack footprint, which would let data centers deploy more compute per square foot and per watt. The TPU 8tx targets regulated enterprises and governments that need data kept protected while in use. Both claims come from Google and are not independently verified in the article.
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