Google announces two new configurations for its eighth-generation TPU systems
Technology · First reported 9 Nov, 17:09 · Updated 18:31
Google says TPU 8i Max pairs two TPU 8i chips in one package, while TPU 8tx combines TPU 8t silicon with hardware-level confidential computing features. The company also describes software updates for TPU development and cloud deployments; published absolute specifications, prices and regions for the two systems were not provided in the article.
- TPU 8i Max combines two TPU 8i chips in one package and is described as doubling compute, SRAM and HBM bandwidth compared with TPU 8i.
- TPU 8tx uses TPU 8t silicon, 5th Gen AMD EPYC hosts and the Boardfly network; Google claims latency up to two times lower than TPU 8t.
- The article reports that Cloud Pathways and GKE dynamic slicing are generally available, while the TPU agent suite is in preview. It says Google did not publish absolute specifications, benchmarks, prices or regions for the two systems.
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- TPU 8i Max design
- Two TPU 8i chips in one package; Google says compute, SRAM and HBM bandwidth are doubled versus TPU 8i.
- TPU 8tx design
- TPU 8t silicon paired with 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPU hosts.
- TPU 8tx latency claim
- Up to two times lower latency than TPU 8t, according to Google.
- Software availability
- Cloud Pathways and GKE dynamic slicing are reported as generally available; the TPU agent suite is in preview.
- Unpublished details
- The article says absolute specifications, benchmarks, prices and regions were not published for either new system.
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