[Google Launches Two Dedicated AI Chips, Expanding Confidential Computing and Memory Capacity] According to a TechCrunch report on November 10th, Google launched two variants of its 8th generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), the TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max, expanding the application scenarios of its self-developed AI chips. The TPU 8tx, co-designed with AMD and based on the TPU 8t, is designed for confidential model training and inference, protecting sensitive data and model weights in use through a hardware layer. Its custom inference network can run inference during training, enabling on-the-fly distillation and training of small models. The TPU 8i Max integrates two inference-focused TPU 8i chips into a single package, doubling memory capacity, processing power, and bandwidth, allowing models to process a wider range of information when querying.