Google adds secure and high-memory variants to its TPU lineup

Google says the 8tx pairs its accelerator technology with AMD processors and hardware-level encryption for government agencies and regulated industries. The company claims up to twice the speed of the preceding design with little performance penalty from the security features.

The 8i Max combines two chips in one package to increase memory and compute capacity for coding, mathematical reasoning and drug-discovery workloads. Google is widening access to its TPUs through Google Cloud as it challenges Nvidia’s position in AI computing.