AMD shares jump 13% after Google Cloud taps EPYC chips for TPU 8tx

What happened

The stock reportedly closed at around $508.58, a gain of 13.26% on the session. What AMD and Google Cloud announced The announcement landed on November 9, 2026. AMD is an electrical and semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, and its products and services include computer hardware and graphics processing units. Google is an Internet and software company based in Mountain View.

That host role is the one AMD just secured inside one of Google Cloud’s flagship AI systems.

The move followed AMD ’s announcement that its fifth-generation EPYC processors will power Google Cloud’s TPU 8tx system for AI. AMD’s fifth-generation EPYC server chips, built on the Turin/Zen 5 architecture, will serve as the host infrastructure for Google Cloud’s new TPU 8tx system.

TPUs, or Tensor Processing Units, are Google’s own AI accelerators. Accelerators need a host processor to manage data, coordinate jobs, and keep the whole system humming.

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Create a free account The TPU 8tx marks the first deployment of a cloud TPU with hardware-enforced confidential computing. That capability comes from AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization, or SEV.