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Two Google TPU 8 chips, the 8t training and 8i inference variants, rendered side by side with the Axion branding

Google splits its AI chip: the TPU 8t trains, the TPU 8i serves, and Axion handles the rest

At Cloud Next 2026, Google unveiled TPU 8t and TPU 8i, an 8th-generation split that matches Nvidia on agentic inference. Ironwood hit GA the same day.