Google has officially unveiled Ironwood, its groundbreaking 7th-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) — and it is now available to Google Cloud customers worldwide. The announcement was made by Amin Vahdat, VP & GM of AI & Infrastructure at Google Cloud, who showcased the new chip directly from inside one of Google’s advanced TPU labs.
watch video on Google’s Ironwood TPU below:
According to Vahdat, Ironwood represents a major leap forward in the AI hardware race. As global demand for AI continues to grow exponentially, traditional general-purpose hardware can no longer keep pace. Ironwood is Google’s answer to that challenge.
🔥 Key Specs of Ironwood Revealed in Video:
- 4× better performance for both AI training and inference compared to the previous TPU generation
- Designed for the new industry priority: maximizing tokens per watt
- A core component of Google’s AI Hypercomputer
- Supports over 9,000 chips in a single liquid-cooled SuperPod
- 9.6 terabits per second high-speed networking per chip
- Engineered for massive models, complex reinforcement learning, and high-volume inference
Ironwood is not just a chip it’s the engine behind Google’s full-stack AI supercomputing strategy. With custom silicon, custom cooling, and co-designed AI models, Google says Ironwood can handle some of the world’s largest AI workloads with unmatched efficiency.
Vahdat concluded by stating that Ironwood is now generally available on Google Cloud, opening new doors for startups, enterprises, and researchers building next-generation AI systems.
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