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Ironwood is Google’s newest AI accelerator chip
During its Cloud Next conference this week, Google unveiled the latest generation of its TPU AI accelerator chip.
“Ironwood is our most powerful, capable, and energy-efficient TPU yet,” Google Cloud VP Amin Vahdat wrote in a blog post provided to TechCrunch. Ironwood has an enhanced specialized core, SparseCore, for processing the types of data common in “advanced ranking” and “recommendation” workloads (e.g. an algorithm that suggests apparel you might like). “Ironwood represents a unique breakthrough in the age of inference,” Vahdat said, “with increased computation power, memory capacity, […] networking advancements, and reliability.”
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