Google Debuts AI Chips with 4X Performance Boost, Secures Anthropic Megadeal Worth Billions

Google debuts AI chips with 4X performance boost, secures Anthropic megadeal worth billions

Google Cloud is introducing what it calls its most powerful artificial intelligence infrastructure to date, unveiling a seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit and expanded Arm-based computing options designed to meet surging demand for AI model deployment — what the company characterizes as a fundamental industry shift from training models to serving them to billions of users.The announcement, made Thursday, centers on Ironwood, Google's late…

Google's $93 Billion Gambit to Break Nvidia's Dominance in Cloud Computing

Google just announced Ironwood, its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit, which is more than four times faster than its predecessor chip.The chip, built entirely in-house, is designed to handle everything from training large models to powering real-time chatbots and AI agents. In connecting up to 9,216 chips in a single pod, Google says the new Ironwood TPUs eliminate data bottlenecks for the most demanding models.Apple Nears $1 Billion-a-Y…

Google steps up AI computing with faster, cheaper Ironwood TPUs

Google is launching Ironwood, its new TPU. The chips could ease GPU shortages. Many companies training AI models have found themselves stuck — GPUs are expensive, in short supply, and power-hungry. That might soon change. Google is preparing to add a new version of its Tensor Processing Unit, called Ironwood, to its cloud service. The chip is built for speed and efficiency, aimed at helping customers run large AI models at a lower cost. Analysts…

Google’s Ironwood TPU To be Generally Available in Coming Weeks

Google announced that Ironwood, its seventh generation of TPUs (tensor processing units), will be made generally available in the coming few weeks.  This means that Google Cloud customers will be able to utilise TPU v7 for their AI workloads.  The chip is claimed to offer a ten-fold peak performance improvement over TPU v5, and 4x better performance per chip for both training and inference workloads compared to TPU v6.  TPUs are chips that are s…

Google launches long-awaited Ironwood TPU for AI inferencing

Google is making Ironwood TPU available to cloud customers with scaling up to 9,216 chips. Anthropic gets access to millions of TPUs.