Announced at Google Cloud Next on 22 April 2026 and not yet generally available. Every figure comes from Google's announcement blog rather than from a spec table for a running machine type. Captive silicon: Google has never sold TPUs as hardware and no third party can resell or host them, so this pod cannot be bought and Google Cloud will be the only place to rent one.

Google TPU 8i Pod

pod
1024× TPU 8i
Boardfly topology, maximum seven-hop ICI network diameter
2026
FP4
10.3
EFLOPS
Power
—
kW Total
Memory
294912
GB Total

Google's eighth-generation inference pod, built on a Boardfly topology rather than a torus, with a maximum seven-hop ICI network diameter. Google describes joining up to 1,152 TPU 8i chips together with up to 1,024 of them active; the figures here use the 1,024 active count, because crediting the pod with throughput from chips Google does not call active would overstate it. At Google's published 10.1 PFLOPS of FP4 per chip that is 10.34 EFLOPS, with 294.9 TB of HBM and 8.8 PB/s of aggregate memory bandwidth, plus 393 GB of on-chip Vmem SRAM. Google publishes no pod-level compute figure; the total is chip count times its published per-chip peak, the same convention its own v4 and Ironwood pod figures confirm. FP4 is the only precision stated and no sparse figure exists. Announced at Google Cloud Next in April 2026 and not yet generally available.

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FP4
10.3
EFLOPS

System Details

GPU Configuration

GPU Model: Google TPU 8i
GPU Count: 1024 GPUs
Architecture: TPU 8
Interconnect: Boardfly topology, maximum seven-hop ICI network diameter

System Specifications

Form Factor: pod
Total Power: —
Total Memory: 294.9 TB
On-die SRAM: 393.2 GB
Memory Bandwidth: 8.8 PB/s

Precision Performance Breakdown

PrecisionSystem PerformancePer GPUEfficiency
10.3 EFLOPS 10,100 TFLOPS —

Where a vendor states a basis, the figure shown is the dense one, and any figure it publishes is listed separately. Vendors commonly headline the sparse number instead: for NVIDIA's 2:4 structured sparsity that is exactly twice the dense figure, though other vendors' sparse modes do not all follow that ratio.

Powered by Google TPU 8i

This system utilizes 1024 × Google TPU 8i GPUs, each delivering exceptional performance for AI and HPC workloads.

Per GPU TDP

—

Per GPU Memory

288 GB

Process Node

—

Architecture

TPU 8

Documentation & Resources

Flopper Spec Sheet

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

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Google TPU 8i Pod documentation

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Typical Use Cases

AI/ML Training
High-Performance Computing
Data Analytics

The Google TPU 8i Pod runs 1024× TPU 8i GPUs over Boardfly topology, maximum seven-hop ICI network diameter, delivering 10.3 EFLOPS FP4 dense.

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