What Google's New Chips Mean If You Train Your Own Models

This is a submission for the Google Cloud NEXT Writing Challenge Google just shipped two fully custom AI chips in a single year . Not derivatives of each other. Not a "pro" and "lite" tier of the same design. Two chips, built from the ground up, for fundamentally different jobs, one for training and one is for inference. If you're building anything on Google Cloud that touches AI workloads, this announcement deserves more than a passing glance. Let me break down what TPU v8 actually is, why the