Google has introduced its latest AI accelerator, the “Ironwood” 7th-generation TPU, designed to power advanced model training and inference at massive scale. With up to 9,216 chips in a single cluster and peak performance well beyond previous generations, Ironwood positions Google as a serious rival to NVIDIA in the AI hardware space. Google Cloud
The move underscores Google’s push toward owning more of the AI stack—from cloud services and chips to software—and signals that companies demanding high-performance AI will have more options beyond NVIDIA. Reuters
