Google has unveiled new AI chips TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max that improve security and processing performance, The Information reported on Sunday.
Google said TPU 8tx processes encrypted sensitive data and targets regulated industries. It said TPU 8i Max is a chip for large-scale agent workloads, with compute capacity and memory bandwidth doubled from the previous model.
Google announced inference and training TPUs in April.
Google developed TPUs for internal use more than a decade ago and began selling them to other companies this year. In October, it announced a collaboration with Oracle. Oracle is the first major cloud company besides Google to rent TPUs to customers. The Information reported last month that OpenAI is also planning to buy TPUs.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian (토마스 쿠리안) said during the quarterly earnings release that TPU sales are making a meaningful contribution to Google's business and that the customer base is close to 100.
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