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At Google Cloud Next 2026 (April 22), Google announced something it had never done before: two different eighth-generation TPU chips with distinct silicon designs for distinct jobs. TPU 8t handles training. TPU 8i handles inference. The split is a ha...

In 2020, NVIDIA released the A100 with 54 billion transistors, 80GB of memory, and 2 TB/s bandwidth. It was VERY BIG and VERY FAST(tm). In 2022, the H100 arrived with 80 billion transistors, the first Transformer Engine optimized for the neural netwo...

Google Unveils Two New TPUs for the Agentic Era Google has officially introduced two next generation Tensor Processing Units, the TPU 8t and TPU 8i, signaling a decisive shift toward what it calls the agentic era of artificial intelligence. According...

Alright folks, big news for anyone pushing the boundaries of AI and machine learning on Google Cloud. The latest generation of Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), the TPU7x (codenamed Ironwood), is now generally available. This is a pretty big deal. Hone...

Nvidia has officially addressed one of the largest AI-hardware setbacks in its history: Google’s decision to redirect a $250 billion AI compute investment away from Nvidia's GPUs and toward Google’s own TPU roadmap alongside select rival chipmakers. ...
