Google announces eighth-generation TPUs (8t and 8i) co-designed with Gemini for agentic workloads, delivering 2x better performance-per-watt efficiency over Ironwood. The chips feature Boardfly topology for reasoning models, run on Google's custom Axion ARM CPUs, and support major frameworks including JAX, PyTorch, and vLLM with bare metal access.
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Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era
Google's TPU-8 chips (8t training, 8i inference) deliver 2x better power efficiency over Ironwood, purpose-built for agentic AI workloads with Boardfly topology and bare-metal framework support.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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