TPUs

Google has expanded its eighth-generation TPU portfolio with two new systems—TPU 8tx for secure, confidential inference and TPU 8i Max for massive context windows—marking the first time four new TPU systems have been introduced in a single year. These specialized hardware systems are designed to support complex agentic workloads across different stages of the AI lifecycle, with TPU 8tx and 8i Max joining the previously announced TPU 8t and 8i. The expansion reflects growing external demand from Google Cloud's nearly 100 customers, including frontier labs, trading firms, and universities, as computing scales toward agent-based applications.