Google announced that TorchTPU, its long-awaited PyTorch version, is now available as an open-source project, allowing AI applications to run on Google's TPU chips and migrate to Google Cloud with simple configuration changes, joining Amazon in challenging Nvidia's dominance in AI chips.
At ISOCC 2026, SK hynix SoC design VP Koo In-jae highlighted structural limits of AI data centers and introduced the company's H-TPU architecture, a lightweight transaction-specific processor design for SSD control, claiming 1/25 area and about 2.5% power consumption of a general-purpose CPU core.
Alphabet plans to use a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch a prototype satellite carrying Google TPUs into orbit during the Transporter-18 mission. This marks the first in-orbit test of Project Suncatcher, which was disclosed in November 2025 and aims to explore solar-powered AI computing infrastructure in space.