Yearly Archives: 2026

Eric

Purdue Brings Google TPUs to Its Own Data Center

Imagine having Google TPUs as AI accelerators in your own on-premises or sovereign AI infrastructure. Google TPUs in a customer's own data center would have sounded bizarre 3 years ago, but today they're a reality. On October 29, Purdue University announced Google TPUs for its own data center. Purdue...
Eric

AWS Emulator Is New, Interesting, and Worth a Look

AWS built a free local stand-in for its cloud from its own API models. Its published test results show which services you can trust in CI today.
Eric

Google TPU 8i Is the Serving Chip, and HBM Bandwidth Shows...

The FP4 headline points buyers at the wrong chip. A five-minute bandwidth calculation sorts the four eighth-generation TPUs by the job each one does best.