MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Google has unveiled two new artificial intelligence chip systems, TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max, completing an unprecedented four-system rollout of its eighth-generation tensor processing units in a single year, the company announced on Monday, 9 November 2026. The new systems are designed for two of the most pressing demands of the agentic AI era: keeping sensitive data protected while it is being processed, and letting AI agents reason across enormous context windows without stalling. The announcement, published on Google's official blog by Amin Vahdat, the company's senior vice president and chief technologist for AI infrastructure, expands a portfolio that began in April 2026 with the TPU 8t for large-scale training and the TPU 8i for real-time reasoning. Google said the four systems together now give customers a purpose-built accelerator for every stage of what it calls the agentic lifecycle. Illustration: A stylized data-center hall filled with ...