Google’s new Ironwood chip is 24x more powerful than the world’s fastest supercomputer

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More 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. The new chip, announced at Google Cloud Next ’25, represents a significant pivot in Google’s decade-long AI chip development strategy. While previous generations of TPUs were designed primarily for both training and inference workloads, Ironwood is the first purpose-built specifically for inference — the process of deploying trained AI models to make predictions or generate responses. “Ironwood is built to support this next phase of generative AI and its tremendous computational and communication requirements,” said Amin Vahdat, Google’s Vice President and General Manager of ML, Systems, and Cloud AI, ... Read full article.