Archive: https://archive.today/ApoM8 From the post: >>After years of producing chips that can both train artificial intelligence models and handle inference work, Google is separating those tasks into distinct processors, its latest effort to take on Nvidia in AI hardware. Google said Wednesday that it’s making the change for the eighth generation of its tensor processing unit, or TPU. Both chips will become available later this year. “With the rise of AI agents, we determined the community would benefit from chips individually specialized to the needs of training and serving,” Amin Vahdat, a Google senior vice president and chief technologist for AI and infrastructure, said in a blog post.