Announced at Google Cloud Next on 22 April 2026 and not yet shipping. Google says both eighth-generation TPUs will be generally available later in 2026, and neither has appeared in Google Cloud TPU documentation or release notes yet, so every figure here comes from Google's announcement blogs rather than from a spec table for a running machine type. Widely repeated claims that this chip is built on TSMC 2nm and arrives in late 2027 are supply-chain reporting about mass production, not Google statements. Captive silicon: Google has never sold TPUs as hardware and no third party can resell or host them, so they cannot be bought, and Google Cloud will be the only place to rent one.

Google TPU 8i

Type: TPUArchitecture: TPU 8Announced: 2026Status: Announced, not shippingSpec confidence: Vendor claimed
Memory
288 GB
Bandwidth
8.6 TB/s
memory

Overview

Google's eighth-generation inference TPU, announced alongside the TPU 8t in April 2026 and tuned for serving rather than training. Google publishes a peak of 10.1 PFLOPS of FP4 per chip, with 288 GB of HBM at 8,601 GB/s — about 1.3 times the TPU 8t's bandwidth — and 384 MB of on-chip Vmem SRAM, three times the 8t's, enough to hold a long-context KV cache on silicon. It uses a Boardfly topology rather than a torus, joining up to 1,152 chips with a maximum seven-hop ICI network diameter and up to 1,024 of them active. FP4 is the only precision Google states; nothing else is published or inferred. Google publishes no sparse figure for any TPU, so this is a dense rate.

Performance

Peak theoretical throughput by precision type

PrecisionPeak
FP64
No verified data available
FP32
No verified data available
TF32
No verified data available
BF16
No verified data available
FP16
No verified data available
FP8
No verified data available
FP6
No verified data available
FP4
4-bit floating point
10,100TFLOPS
INT8
No verified data available

Every figure here is dense. The vendor documents no structured (2:4) sparsity mode for this part, so there is no second number to quote.

Specifications

Architecture

TPU 8

Form Factor

No verified data available

Launch Year

2026

Process Node

No verified data available

Memory

288 GB

Bandwidth

8,601 GB/s

TDP

No verified data available

Max power

No verified data available

Spec Confidence

Vendor claimed

Full Specifications

Memory
Memory 288 GB
Memory Type No verified data available
Bandwidth 8.6 TB/s
Interface Width No verified data available
On-Die SRAM 384 MB
Power & Thermal
TDP No verified data available
Max power No verified data available
Enterprise Features
Sparsity No
General
Form Factor No verified data available
Architecture TPU 8
Process Node No verified data available
Launch Year 2026

Datasheet & Resources

Flopper Datasheet

Google TPU 8i specifications, generated from our database. Printable.

Vendor product page

Google documentation for the TPU 8i

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Data Provenance

Every figure traced to a source

Primary Source

Document
—
Publisher
Google
Published
No verified data available

Data Quality

Spec confidence
Vendor claimed
Clock basis
Boost
Core precisions with figures
1 of 9
Normalization
All values in TFLOPS

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Systems Using This GPU

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SystemGPU CountPeak PerformanceTotal Power
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Frequently Asked Questions

How many TFLOPS does the Google TPU 8i have?

The verified peak figures Flopper holds for the Google TPU 8i are 10,100 TFLOPS FP4. Flopper does not currently have verified FP32, FP16 and FP8 throughput figures for it.

What is the power consumption of the Google TPU 8i?

Flopper does not currently have a verified TDP (Thermal Design Power) figure for the Google TPU 8i.

How much memory does the Google TPU 8i have?

The Google TPU 8i is equipped with 288 GB of memory with 8,601 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

What architecture is the Google TPU 8i based on?

The Google TPU 8i is based on the TPU 8 architecture, launched in 2026.

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