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Google’s new Ironwood chip is 24x more powerful than the world’s fastest supercomputer
- Google Cloud unveiled its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) called Ironwood, claiming it delivers more than 24 times the computing power of the world’s fastest supercomputer.
- Ironwood is the first TPU purpose-built for inference, providing computational power for deploying trained AI models.
- With scaled deployment, Ironwood delivers 42.5 exaflops, dwarfing El Capitan's 1.7 exaflops, and offers 4,614 teraflops peak compute per chip.
- Each Ironwood chip features 192GB of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and 7.2 terabits per second memory bandwidth per chip.
- Ironwood delivers twice the performance per watt compared to the previous TPU generation, enhancing power efficiency.
- Google observed a 10x increase in AI compute demand over eight years, emphasizing the need for specialized architectures like Ironwood for inference.
- Ironwood's focus on inference optimization signifies a shift towards deployment efficiency and reasoning capabilities in the AI landscape.
- Google positions Ironwood as a foundation for advanced AI models like Gemini 2.5, emphasizing reasoning tasks over simple pattern recognition.
- Google also announced Cloud WAN and software offerings for AI, aiming to enhance networking performance and machine learning runtime scaling.
- Google's vertical integration in developing TPUs translates into competitive advantages in AI offerings for enterprise customers.
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