Google launches two new AI chips to compete with Nvidia
The eighth-generation TPU splits into TPU 8t for training and TPU 8i for inference, with up to 3x faster training.
What's new
At Cloud Next, Google unveiled its eighth-generation TPU chips, now split into two:
- TPU 8t: for training models.
- TPU 8i: for running models (inference).
Google's claims
- Up to 3x faster model training.
- 80% better performance per dollar.
- More than 1 million TPUs working together in a single cluster.
Nvidia
- Google will also offer Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips later this year.
- The two companies will collaborate on Google's Falcon networking software.
Nvidia is worth nearly $5 trillion, and Google wants a bigger share of that market.
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