Google Drops Four TPUs in One Year

🔥 What happened Google unveiled TPU 8tx and 8i Max, bringing its eighth-gen lineup to four systems in a single year. 8tx delivers hardware-level confidential inference for regulated customers; 8i Max handles million-token context windows for agentic workloads. 💡 Why it matters Nearly 100 customers now run TPUs, from frontier labs to trading firms. Google is countering Nvidia's grip with modular silicon plus PyTorch support — shipping new systems in months, not years. ⚡ Our take Google stopped playing only its own game: TPUs are now a real Nvidia challenger. Anyone still blindly buying H100s in 2027 should put the cart back.