Google is building TPU v8 for the broader AI market

Google says TPU v8 is being designed for far more than its own internal AI workloads as the company expands its custom silicon strategy.
“We are essentially building for the world.”
The shift suggests $GOOGL increasingly sees its TPU platform as an external AI infrastructure business rather than simply an internal alternative to GPUs.
That could make custom Google silicon a more direct competitor for AI compute spending as demand continues to expand across the industry.