Meet Ironwood: Google’s new 7th-gen TPU is 4x faster and designed by AI

Meet Ironwood: Google’s new 7th-gen TPU is 4x faster and designed by AI

While we usually focus on the gadgets in our hands, the real magic of the AI era happens in the massive data centers powering them. This week, Google officially launched Ironwood, its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), and the specs are absolutely staggering. Google calls Ironwood its “most powerful, capable, and energy-efficient TPU yet,” and […]