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A green circuit board with four TPU chips under metal heat spreaders, connected by coloured liquid-cooling tubes. — Google brings its TPUs to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with capacity from 2027

AI Chips & Infrastructure27 Oct 2026, 14:00 UTC

Google and Oracle said on 27 October 2026 that Google TPUs will be offered on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with capacity deploying from calendar year 2027.

Summary

Google and Oracle announced on 27 October 2026 that Google's Tensor Processing Units will be offered on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, making OCI the first hyperscaler outside Google to sell TPUs. Capacity will deploy starting in calendar year 2027. The post cites eighth-generation TPUs with up to 12.6 PFLOPS of FP4 compute per chip. Regions, prices, chip counts and the exact TPU generation for OCI are not stated.

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