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Google’s new Ironwood chip is 24x more powerful than the world’s fastest supercomputer
Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU chip delivering 42.5 exaflops of AI compute power — 24x more than the world's fastest supercomputer — ushering in the "age of inference."
Google Cloud unveiled its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit(TPU) called Ironwood on Wednesday, a custom AI accelerator that the company claims delivers more than 24 times the computing power of the world’s fastest supercomputer when deployed at scale. Google’s investments in specialized hardware like Ironwood, combined with its agent interoperability initiatives, suggest the company is positioning itself for a future where AI becomes more distributed, more complex, and more deeply integrated into business operations. If history is any guide, we can expect Microsoft and Amazon to counter with their own inference optimization strategies, potentially setting up a three-way race to build the most efficient AI infrastructure stack.
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