Google says TPU demand is outstripping supply, claims 8yr old hardware iterations have “100% utilization”

Google says TPU demand is outstripping supply, claims 8yr old hardware iterations have “100% utilization”

Google’s VP and GM of AI and infrastructure, Amin Vahdat, said demand for the company’s TPUs is so oversubscribed that the company is having to turn customers away.

Speaking on a panel at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Runtime event in Utah last week, Vahdat said that Google currently has seven generations of its TPU hardware in production and that its “seven and eight-year-old TPUs have 100 percent utilization.”

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