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2025-11-28
TPUv7: Google Takes a Swing at the King
Key Points
Market Shift Away from Nvidia
- Two best models in world (Anthropic Claude 4.5 Opus, Google Gemini 3) trained on Google TPUs and Amazon Trainium
- Google now selling TPUs to multiple firms; potentially end of Nvidia's dominance
- Nvidia on defensive: putting out reassuring PR, but clear shift in momentum favoring Google/TPU supply chain
The Circular Economy of AI Capex
- Cost structure of AI-driven software fundamentally differs from traditional software
- Chip microarchitecture and system architecture critically impact development scalability and Capex/Opex
- Infrastructure advantages directly translate to deployment/scaling advantages for AI applications
- Firms with infrastructure advantage have advantage in deploying and scaling AI applications
Google's Strategic Infrastructure Build
- TPU concept dates to 2006; execution problem boiling over in 2013 (need to double datacenters for AI deployment)
- Groundwork laid 2013; TPU v1 in production 2016
- Contrast with Amazon's parallel Nitro Program (2013) for general-purpose compute optimization
Commercial TPU Expansion
- Anthropic securing 1GW+ TPU buildout (unprecedented external customer commitment)
- Expanding client list: Meta, Stability AI, xAI, OpenAI
- More TPU purchases = more NVIDIA GPU Capex savings for customers
- OpenAI achieving ~30% compute fleet cost reduction from competitive threats before even deploying TPU
Infrastructure Comparison & Opportunities
- Original TPU deep dive refreshed with updated hardware stack (silicon to software layer)
- Positive developments on open software ecosystem; critical missing ingredient identified
- Next-gen TPUv8AX/8X (Sunfish/Zebrafish) competitive positioning vs Vera Rubin
- Long-term threat to Nvidia's moat discussed in paid section
Source
- File:
SA_Google TPUv7_ The 900lb Gorilla In the Room (28 Nov 25).pdf
- Location: Dropbox/_Quick drop/Google Infra/
- Pages: 46
- Date Published: November 28, 2025
- Type: Long-form strategic analysis (Paid content)
- Topics: TPU commercial success, circular economy dynamics, competitive threat to Nvidia
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