Google unveils Ironwood, its most powerful AI chip yet—over 4x faster than its predecessor—as it targets Nvidia’s dominance with custom silicon for large-scale model training and real-time AI applications.

"While the majority of large language models and AI workloads have relied on Nvidia’s graphics processing units (GPUs), Google’s TPUs fall into the category of custom silicon, which can offer advantages on price, performance and efficiency. TPUs have been in the works for a decade. Ironwood, according to Google, is more than four times faster than its predecessor, and major customers are already lining up. AI startup Anthropic plans to use up to 1 million of the new TPUs to run its Claude model, Google said."

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