Tachyum Defends TPU^® Trademark from Infringement by Google TPU

LAS VEGAS, December 8, 2025 –Tachyum^® today announced that it is beginning to take steps to defend the use of its registered TPU^® trademark. Tachyum initially applied for trademark status in September 2015 and has held the rights to TPU (for its AI Tachyum Processing Unit) since October 2020. Google recently filed for similar trademark protection of Google TPU for its Tensor Processing Unit on November 21^st of this year.

Tachyum is requesting Google to stop using TPU as a part of a descriptor for its Google TPU and will petition the U.S. Trademark Office to defend its legal claims to the term. Trademarks are important and valuable property of companies in much the same way that patents, copyrights and other intellectual property assignments are.

Tachyum offers its TPU AI intellectual property as a licensable core, allowing developers to take full advantage of intelligent, datacenter-trained AI when making IoT and Edge devices. Tachyum is the only owner of the TPU trademark within the AI space.

Trademark law allows for more than one organization to use matching terms only when their use represents distinct different markets where the general public cannot confuse one for the other. The use of Google TPU for its AI chips, when TPU is already owned by Tachyum for its AI chips and IP for AI chips, does not represent distinct and different markets.

“We applied for and were granted trademark protection for TPU as part of our portfolio of internationally registered and trademarked IP. Google’s unlicensed use of TPU represents an infringement that creates confusion and harms our business prospects within the AI marketplace,” said Dr. Radoslav Danilak, founder and CEO of Tachyum. “Because of this, we are re-asserting our claim to the trademark rights of TPU as solely our corporate asset, and request that Google and others refrain from infringement to describe their similarly competitive products and services in the AI space. We fully expect a successful defense against Google’s redundant application of the term with the U.S. Trademark Office.”

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Tachyum is transforming the economics of AI, HPC, public and private cloud with the world’s first Universal Processor Prodigy unifying the functionality of a CPU, an HPC GPGPU, and AI accelerators to deliver industry-leading performance, cost and power efficiency. Tachyum has offices in the United States, Slovakia, Taiwan and the Czech Republic. For more information, visit https://www.tachyum.com/.