Google Unveils TPU 8i Max and TPU 8tx: A Dual-Chip TPU and a Confidential TPU

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Google has added two new systems to its eighth-generation TPU lineup. TPU 8i Max targets massive context windows and rack density. TPU 8tx targets secure, confidential inference. Google TPU 8i Max is a dual-chip package built from 2 TPU 8i chips. Both arrive alongside TPU 8t and TPU 8i, announced in April. TL;DR Size: TPU 8i Max = 2 TPU 8i chips in 1 package. TPU 8tx = TPU 8t silicon plus 5th Gen AMD EPYC hosts. Runs on: Google Cloud TPU systems. Performance: 8i Max doubles TPU 8i compute, SRAM and HBM bandwidth. 8tx cuts latency up to 2x versus TPU 8t. Best: 2x the silicon in the existing rack footprint (TPU 8i Max). Worst: No absolute specs, benchmarks, prices or regions published for either system. What did Google announce? Google announced both systems today. These are new system configurations, not new chips. Google reuses its existing eighth-generation silicon and changes packaging, hosts, memory and networking around it. How does TPU 8i Max work? TPU 8i Max attacks the memory wall. Google team combines 2 low-latency TPU 8i chips onto 1 package. The result doubles compute, SRAM and HBM bandwidth compared with TPU 8i. Each TPU 8i chip is rated at 10.1 PFLOPS of FP4, 288 GB of HBM and 8,601 GB/s. It also carries 384 MB of on-chip SRAM. Doubling those figures implies about 20.2 PFLOPS FP4, 768 MB SRAM and 17.2 TB/s per package. Google did not publish these absolute figures. It also did not state HBM capacity for TPU 8i Max. TPU 8i Max fits twice the silicon in the existing rack footprint. Google positions it for agents working across whole codebases or hours of video. What makes TPU 8tx different? TPU 8tx is built for regulated enterprises and governments. It keeps data and model weights protected even while in active use. Normally, data must be decrypted in memory during processing. TPU 8tx uses the same silicon as TPU 8t. It pairs that silicon with 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPU hosts. It also adopts the Boardfly network from TPU 8i. Google claims up to