Google unveils Ironwood, seventh generation TPU, competing with Nvidia
Google said it’s making Ironwood, the company’s most powerful chip yet, widely available in the coming weeks.Ironwood, the seventh generation of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), was initially introduced in April for testing.
Google says it’s more than four times faster than its predecessor.
Google Cloud TPUs are custom-designed AI accelerators, which are optimized for training and inference of AI models. They are ideal for a variety of use cases, such as agents, code generation, media content generation, synthetic speech, vision services, recommendation engines, and personalization models, among others. TPUs power Gemini, and all of Google’s AI powered applications like Search, Photos, and Maps, all serving over 1 Billion users.
