Google unveils Ironwood, its most powerful AI processor yet
- Google unveiled Ironwood, its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit , at the Cloud Next conference.
- The rising costs of AI and a shift towards inference drove Google to develop Ironwood.
- Ironwood features increased memory, bandwidth, and performance per watt compared to the prior Trillium TPU.
- Ironwood delivers 4,614 TFLOPs of computing power and has 192GB of HBM, transmitting 7.2 terabits per second.
- Ironwood aims to improve AI scaling, allowing for greater chip utilization and faster processing for inference tasks.
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Google unveils Ironwood AI chip to boost performance
Alphabet’s on Wednesday unveiled its seventh-generation artificial intelligence chip named Ironwood, which the company said is designed to speed the performance of AI applications. The Ironwood processor is geared toward the type of data crunching needed when users query software such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Known in the tech industry as “inference” computing, the chips perform rapid calculations to render answers in a chatbot or generate other typ…
Ironwood: Google's Answer to Nvidia in the AI Chip Wars
Hallucinations apart, customers in the past complained of Google’s Gemini being slow, especially with larger contexts and token counts. To solve that problem, the company announced it was building some of its fastest computers to date with its new AI chip called Ironwood, the seventh-generation TPU, which was announced at Google Cloud Next. Each server, called a “pod” by Google, will interconnect 9,216 Ironwood chips that can jointly run as one …
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Google launches new Ironwood chip to speed AI applications
SAN FRANCISCO : Alphabet's on Wednesday unveiled its seventh-generation artificial intelligence chip named Ironwood, which the company said is designed to speed the performance of AI applications.The Ironwood processor is geared toward the type of data crunching needed when users query software such as Op
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