Why it matters

Trillium is current Google TPU. Understanding shapes near-term GCP.

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The architecture

Trillium: 4.7x compute of v5e.

Higher HBM bandwidth.

Same software stack.

TPU v6 vs v5Trillium chips4.7x v5e computeHigher HBMbandwidthSame softwareJAX + XLAUsed for Gemini training; available for enterprise via Cloud TPU
TPU v6.
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How it works end to end

Compute upgrade: sparse core acceleration.

Memory bandwidth up.

Same JAX + XLA + PyTorch/XLA support.