News Summary

• Google announced its eighth generation of custom-built AI chips, or tensor processing units (TPUs), will be split in two.
• One chip will be geared for model training and another, the TPU 8i, is aimed at inference.
• Like the other giant cloud providers, including Microsoft and Amazon, Google is using these chips to supplement the Nvidia-based systems it offers in its infrastructure.
• It is not flat-out replacing Nvidia.
• In fact, Google promises its cloud will have Nvidia’s latest chip, Vera Rubin, available later this year.