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Ironwood, our latest TPU

61 points by zdw

by TrainedMonkey

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Google having their own hardware for training and inference is newsworthy, but the link is pretty bad. Here is a much better source https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/ironwood-tpu-age-o...

by gorbot

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I'm an idiot and I know nothing
But I wonder if there could be room for an ARM-like spec that Google could try and own and license but for AI chips. Arm is to risc-cpu as google-thing is to asic-aichip
Prolly a dumb idea, better to sell the chips or access to them?

by shrubble

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Not much real data or news there.

by aurareturn

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I think we need an analysis of tokens/$1 and tokens/second for Nvidia Blackwell vs Ironwood.

by bigyabai

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> It’s designed for AI with AI
CUDA engineers, your job security has never felt more certain.

by jeffbee

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These are only available in Iowa on GCP, which to me raises this question: do they have them all over the world for their own purposes, or does this limited geography also mean that users of Google AI features get varied experiences depending on their location?

by bgwalter

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So we will be getting wrong answers faster now.