BREAKING
Google Backs Data Centers to Sell TPUs
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Lake Mariner guarantee
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Blackstone AI cloud
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Texas backstop
From 2015 Project to External Chip
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Built internally 2015
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Cloud access 2018
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Ironwood v7 2025
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8th gen 2026
TPU 8t vs TPU 8i
TPU 8t
Training
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216 GB HBM
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12.6 PFLOPs FP4
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9,600-chip superpod
TPU 8i
Inference
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288 GB HBM
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8,601 GB/s bandwidth
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Low-latency serving
Performance and Cost Gains
8t train $/perf
2.7
8i inference $/perf
1.8
Pod vs Ironwood
2.8
Can TPUs Challenge Nvidia?
AI NEWS BLITZ
Google is bankrolling data-center deals to widen sales of its custom AI chips, echoing Nvidia.