Google TPU v4

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13 chips on record, newest first.

1. 2026

   Google Tensor G6

   3nm (TSMC) Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), co-designed with Google DeepMind

   50% more TPU compute than Tensor G5; on-device AI tasks up to 3.5x faster using up to 3.5x less energy

   Relative only
2. 2026

   Google TPU 8i

   Not stated by Google Eighth-gen inference TPU, 384 MB on-chip SRAM

   Peak FP4 10.1 PFLOPs per chip

   Absolute
3. 2026

   Google TPU 8t

   Not stated by Google Eighth-gen training TPU, up to 9,600 chips per superpod

   Peak FP4 12.6 PFLOPs per chip

   Absolute
4. 2025

   Google Tensor G5

   3nm (TSMC) Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

   Up to 60% more powerful TPU than Tensor G4; on-device Gemini Nano 2.6x faster and 2x more efficient; context window 12,000 to 32,000 tokens

   Relative only
5. 2025

   Google TPU Ironwood (TPU7x)

   Not stated by Google Seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit built for inference

   Each individual chip boasts peak compute of 4,614 TFLOPs.

   Absolute
6. 2024

   Google Tensor G4

   Not stated by Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

   No TPU figure published

   None published
7. 2024

   Google TPU Trillium (v6e)

   Not stated by Google Sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit

   918 TFLOPs BF16 per chip; 1,836 TOPs INT8

   Absolute
8. 2023

   Google TPU v5p

   Not stated by Google Training-focused Tensor Processing Unit

   459 TFLOPs BF16 per chip

   Absolute
9. 2023

   Google Tensor G3

   Not stated by Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

   Runs more than twice as many on-device models as Pixel 6; on-device generative AI 150x more complex than Pixel 7’s largest model

   Relative only
10. 2023

    Google TPU v5e

    Not stated by Google Cost-focused Tensor Processing Unit

    197 TFLOPs BF16 per chip; 393 TOPs INT8

    Absolute
11. 2022

    Google Tensor G2

    Not stated by Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

    No quantified claim published

    None published
12. 2021

    Google Tensor

    Not stated by Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

    No figure published; qualitative only

    None published
13. 2021

    Google TPU v4

    Not stated by Google Google Tensor Processing Unit, fourth generation

    275 teraflops (bf16 or int8) per chip

    Absolute

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