AMD’s 5th-gen EPYC to power Google Cloud TPU 8tx host infrastructure

Cointime update: AMD said on November 9 that its 5th-generation EPYC server processors will provide host infrastructure for Google Cloud’s TPU 8tx, the first cloud TPU system to support hardware-enforced confidential computing. The two companies will combine EPYC CPUs, AMD Infinity Guard security technology and Google TPU compute so enterprises can run AI workloads such as inference, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning in the cloud while protecting sensitive data. AMD said EPYC is now the host CPU of choice at more than 10 major hyperscalers and frontier AI labs worldwide.