Google 推出两款专用 AI 芯片，扩展硬件组合
原标题：Google broadens its AI hardware portfolio with two new specialized chips
AI 摘要
Google 发布第八代 TPU 的两款新变体 TPU 8tx 和 TPU 8i Max，分别面向机密推理和更大内存容量的大规模工作负载。TPU 8tx 与 AMD 合作设计，将安全能力内置于硬件层，并支持在训练同时进行推理以在线蒸馏小模型；TPU 8i Max 则将两颗推理芯片整合进单一封装，使内存、算力和带宽翻倍。此举旨在降低 Google 云业务对外部芯片的依赖，并加入微软、亚马逊、OpenAI、Anthropic 等自研 AI 芯片以减少对 Nvidia 依赖的行列。
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Google is notching up its chipmaking game as the company seeks to reduce its dependence on chips made by other companies for its cloud computing business. Google on Monday unveiled two new variants of its tensor processing units (TPUs), in-house developed chips meant for AI workloads, that broaden its chip portfolio to additional use cases: confidential inference and more memory capacity for large workloads. The new units, TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max, are part of the company’s eighth generation of ch