AMD EPYC Expands Its Leadership at the Foundation of AI

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09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced that 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ processors are powering the host infrastructure for Google Cloud TPU 8tx, the first cloud Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) system to deliver hardware-enforced confidential computing. The expanded collaboration between the companies combines AMD EPYC™ CPU (the general-purpose processor at the centre of a computer) performance, AMD Infinity Guard security capabilities and x86 software compatibility with Google Cloud TPU AI acceleration to help enterprises deploy inference, fine-tuning (further training of an existing model for a narrower job) and reinforcement learning workloads.

The deployment extends the role of AMD EPYC processors as a foundation for accelerated AI infrastructure. With TPU 8tx, AMD and Google Cloud bring those capabilities together with hardware-rooted security to address a critical requirement for production AI: protecting data while it is in use.

The system utilizes the AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) capabilities in the AMD EPYC CPU, which together with the TPU, extends confidential computing protection beyond the CPU to connected accelerators, helping protect sensitive data as it moves among them. AMD EPYC processors enable protection of sensitive AI models and data, combining host processing, security capabilities and x86 software compatibility.

AMD EPYC processors are the host CPU of choice across more than 10 leading hyperscalers and frontier AI labs, spanning GPUs (a chip built for many calculations at once, used for graphics and AI) and custom AI accelerator ASICs. With Google Cloud’s confidential computing architecture on TPU 8tx supported by 5th Gen AMD EPYC host processors, organizations can run their most sensitive AI workloads at scale in the cloud without compromising on data protection.