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Google launched two new TPU versions at once, targeting the needs of confidential computing and long-text AI, intensifying its challenge to Huida’s dominant position in the AI chip market.
Huida ceoJen-Hsun Huang When Chinese women were suspected of being spies.Google Two new versions of AI chips have been launched that can handle confidential computing needs and help AI models gain more insight when answering questions as the industry shifts to the use of AI agents and tackles the security challenges they face.
Google launched new products, showing that the company’s chip division is accelerating research and development. The department used to release a new AI processor every two years, but this year it launched two simultaneously, and announced new versions of the two chips on the 9th. US shares of Google’s parent company Alphabet rose 3% in early trading on the 9th.
Google chip director Amin Vahdat said the newly released tensor processors (TPU) “8tx” and “8i Max” are not newly designed chips, but rather reconfigured to handle the tasks required by customers.
8tx is used to handle confidential security work for government agencies and regulatory industries, and can work with AMD chips. 8AI Max is used for AI applications that need to deal with long text, that is, the amount of data the AI can process in a single request. Vadat said that this new drug is very important for research and development, mathematics and programming.
The TPU competes with Huida’s dominant graphics processing unit (GPU). Google makes huge profits from selling chips. According to Bloomberg Industry Research, sales of Google TPUs and related software and hardware will exceed US$135 billion by 2028, far higher than the estimated US$12 billion this year.
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Google has launched two new versions of TPU 8tx and 8i Max. They are not new designs, but reconfigured according to customer needs. It aims to meet the needs of confidential computing and long-text AI processing, and strengthen competition in the AI chip market.
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8tx is primarily used in government agencies and regulatory industries for confidential operations requiring high security, and can also work with ultra-fine chips. Its importance lies in its ability to support sensitive data processing, which is important for scenarios with high compliance and security requirements.
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Google’s chip department used to launch a new processor approximately every two years, but now it has released two models in a short period of time, which shows that research and development is accelerating. The news sent Alphabet’s share price up 3% in early trading, and Bloomberg estimates that related sales will exceed US$135 billion by 2028.
