Google 7th-gen AIP

Ironwood to take on Nvidia and AWS.

November 6, 2025

Jon Peddie

Google has released Ironwood, its seventh-generation tensor processing unit (TPU), specifically designed for inference. This powerful AI accelerator is built to handle the massive computational demands of “thinking models,” like large language models and mixture of experts. Ironwood scales up to 9,216 chips, offering 42.5 EFLOPS of compute power, making it more powerful than the world’s largest supercomputer. (Source: Google/JPR) Google Cloud introduced a new generation AI infrastructure at Hot Chips 2025, which centers on its seventh-generation tensor processing unit. Called Ironwood, it works alongside expanded Arm-based compute instances. The company has released more detailed information, positioning this platform for

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