Google announced 8TX and 8I Max, expanding its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) custom-accelerator portfolio.

FinancialJuice reports that Google expanded its eighth-generation TPU portfolio with 8TX and 8I Max. The announcement concerns Google’s custom-accelerator systems, not a disclosed purchase of NVIDIA GPUs.

A separate message says the two TPU versions are intended to handle more specialized tasks. The supplied reporting does not identify those tasks or assign a particular training or inference role to either version.

The available messages provide no throughput, memory, interconnect, power-consumption or pricing specifications. They also do not give shipment quantities or customer deployment dates, limiting the supported analysis to the portfolio expansion and stated specialization.