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Google introduces its third TPU generation at I/O 2018. Cloud documentation specifies 32 GiB of HBM2 and 123 BF16 teraflops per chip, scaling to 1,024-chip pods.

Google unveils TPU v4 at I/O 2021. Its 4,096-chip pods scale beyond one exaflop, while each chip provides 275 BF16 teraflops and 32 GiB of HBM2.

SANDAG broke ground on 9 June 2022 on a two-way, 10-foot paved path with two-foot shoulders along Harbor Drive in Barrio Logan, linking two existing stretches of the 24-mile Bayshore Bikeway around San Diego Bay. The 2022 release anticipated opening in 2024; SANDAG's current page labels only the intersection-improvements entry as open, and Visit San Diego still lists the path as upcoming, so the date it opens is unconfirmed.

Google launches TPU v5e in preview, targeting medium- and large-scale AI training and inference with 256-chip pods and workload-dependent improvements in performance per dollar.

Google announces its performance-focused fifth-generation TPU, scaling to 8,960-chip pods with 96 GiB of physical HBM per chip, alongside its integrated AI Hypercomputer architecture.

Google announces Trillium (TPU v6e), with 4.7 times the peak compute per chip of TPU v5e, double its HBM capacity and a claimed improvement of over 67% in energy efficiency.

AI inference chip maker Groq raised $640 million in a Series D round led by BlackRock Private Equity Partners, valuing the company at $2.8 billion. Neuberger Berman, Type One Ventures, Cisco Investments, KDDI's Global Brain fund and Samsung Catalyst Fund also took part. Groq said the money would scale GroqCloud and its LPU capacity.

San Diego is extending Park Boulevard across the BNSF, SDIV and MTS tracks to Harbor Drive, between Petco Park and the Hilton Bayfront, so vehicles can cross there for the first time. The rail package is a $9 million contract inside a $27 million programme; Visit San Diego says phase one is complete and phase two is to begin in 2027 and finish in 2028.

On November 19, 2024 the San Diego City Council approved transferring 1100 Kettner Boulevard, the former Museum of Contemporary Art downtown, to UC San Diego. The university plans a seismic retrofit, mechanical and A/V upgrades and a multidisciplinary arts incubator called The Depot. Its project list shows Schematic Design with completion anticipated in Spring 2028; the Prebys Foundation gave $5 million for operations.

Groq said Saudi Arabia committed $1.5 billion to expand delivery of its LPU-based AI inference infrastructure, tied to a new GroqCloud data center in Dammam. The deal was Groq's largest overseas capacity commitment to date.

Google announces Ironwood for large-scale inference, later documented as TPU7x for both training and inference, with 192 GiB of HBM per chip and pods of up to 9,216 chips.

UC San Diego's Hillcrest Campus Phase 2 Utility Undergrounding project moves overhead SDG&E electrical and telecom lines underground along Arbor Drive between Front Street and First Avenue and First Avenue up to Montecito Way. A campus notice put trenching at the week of April 21, 2025, and the campus project list gives anticipated completion as Fall 2027.

UC San Diego Recreation began expanding and renovating RIMAC in August 2025. The project adds about 20,000 square feet of recreation space, including more cardio and weight areas, an extra bouldering wall and a 42-foot, eight-lane top-rope climbing wall. The facility stays open during construction, and the university says it opens January 7, 2027.

CBS 8 reported on August 11, 2025 that the Garfield Shopping Center, at the northeast corner of Balboa Avenue and Clairemont Drive in San Diego, could be demolished for roughly 600 apartments. The owner, Clairemont Rental Properties, said nothing is imminent and no tenants have been asked to leave, but did not deny that housing plans are in the works.

Groq raised $750 million at a $6.9 billion post-money valuation, more than double its August 2024 value. Disruptive led the round, with BlackRock, Neuberger Berman and Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners participating. CEO Jonathan Ross said inference was defining this era of AI.

Groq announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Nvidia for its inference technology. Founder Jonathan Ross and president Sunny Madra, along with other team members, moved to Nvidia, while Groq said it would keep operating independently and GroqCloud would continue. Groq did not disclose terms; CNBC reported about $20 billion.

At GTC on March 16, 2026, Nvidia presented the Groq 3 LPU, a dedicated inference chip built from its Groq licensing deal, in LPX racks to pair with Vera Rubin NVL72. Reports differ on rack size: 256 LPUs in most coverage, 128 in some. Availability was reported as the second half of 2026.

Google announces the training-focused half of its eighth TPU generation: 9,600-chip superpods, native FP4, 216 GB of HBM per chip and Axion hosts. The current product page lists it as coming soon.

Google announces its inference-focused eighth-generation TPU, combining 288 GB of HBM, 384 MB of on-chip SRAM and Boardfly networking across up to 1,152 chips. Availability is still listed as coming soon.

In late May 2026 Groq was reported to be raising $650 million from existing investors to fund its shift to an AI inference cloud business after the Nvidia deal. The pro-rata round was reported as backstopped by Disruptive and Infinitum. Co-founder Doug Wightman stayed and the company was rebuilding its leadership team.

UC San Diego Health's Thornton MRI Expansion, nicknamed The Bump, adds about 3,100 square feet to the radiology suite in Thornton Pavilion and remodels about 700 square feet for two new MRI rooms. The health system's construction alert says it was scheduled to begin August 1, 2026, with completion in fall 2027; the campus project list says anticipated completion is Spring 2027. Existing MRI operations stay open during construction.

Enovix said on November 5 it had completed about 220 employee and contract-labor reductions from a base of 946 positions, citing US$8.5 million in annual savings while shifting resources toward South Korea.

Wing announced up to US$125 million in direct manufacturing investment over two years at a 15,000-square-foot Fort Worth facility, with up to 100 jobs. It did not publish a production-start or opening date.

President Isaac Herzog announced that Gadi Eisenkot will receive the mandate at 5 pm in Jerusalem on November 8. The ceremony starts a 28-day coalition-building period; it does not make Eisenkot prime minister.

UC San Diego is planning the Pepper Canyon East District, a multi-phase development on a 20-acre site on west campus beside the Light Rail Transit station, with about 6,000 beds, a hotel, food, recreation and amenity space replacing existing housing. The campus lists it as pre-design, with District Phase 1 anticipated in Fall 2030. The Regents approved $60 million of preliminary-plans funding for Phase 1 in July 2024.

Oregon and Washington plan to replace the 105-year-old I-5 Interstate Bridge over the Columbia River with a fixed-span bridge, rebuilt interchanges and a light rail extension. The program's 2026 estimate for the full five-mile corridor is $14.4 billion (range $13.5 to $15.2 billion). Federal environmental review finished in July 2026; construction of the replacement bridge is expected to begin in 2028 and last six to seven years, with full program completion now 2045.

UC San Diego Health is planning a new four-story, roughly 180,000 gross-square-foot outpatient pavilion on its La Jolla campus for orthopedics, spine and neurosciences, outpatient surgery, imaging and urgent care. The Regents were told in 2024 the preliminary budget is $250 million to $300 million. The campus now lists it in Design Development with completion anticipated in 2029, later than the fall 2028 opening first projected.