AMD to Supply Fifth-Generation EPYC Server CPUs for Google Cloud TPU 8tx

AMD announced that fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors will provide host infrastructure support for Google Cloud TPU 8tx. TPU 8tx is the first cloud tensor processing unit (TPU) system to deliver hardware-enforced confidential computing.  It is reported that AMD and Google have reduced the risk of information leakage by applying hardware-based confidential computing technology. This technology encrypts data stored in CPU memory and information transmitted to the TPU, providing hardware-level protection even during computation on the TPU.