Google Cloud Unveils Ironwood TPUs With 10X Performance Boost as Anthropic Plans Million-Chip Access
Summary
Google Cloud launches revolutionary Ironwood TPUs delivering 10X performance boost over previous generation chips, while AI company Anthropic prepares to harness up to one million TPUs as customers report dramatic improvements in speed and cost efficiency.
Key Points
- Google Cloud launches Ironwood TPUs, its seventh-generation tensor processing units offering 10X peak performance improvement over TPU v5p and 4X better performance per chip than TPU v6e for AI training and inference workloads
- New Arm-based Axion instances N4A and C4A metal become available, with N4A providing up to 2X better price-performance than comparable x86-based VMs for general-purpose computing tasks
- Anthropic plans to access up to 1 million TPUs as part of expanding partnerships, while customers like Vimeo report 30% performance improvements and ZoomInfo sees 60% better price-performance with the new infrastructure