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Stacking Up Google’s “Ironwood” TPU Pod To Other AI Supercomputers

April 17, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

As part of the pre-briefings ahead of the Google Cloud Next 2025 conference last week and then during the keynote address, the top brass at Google kept comparing a pod of “Ironwood” TPU v7p systems to the “El Capitan” supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. …

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With “Ironwood” TPU, Google Pushes The AI Accelerator To The Floor

April 9, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

If you want to be a leading in supplying AI models and AI applications, as well as AI infrastructure to run it, to the world, it is also helpful to have a business that needs a lot of AI that can underwrite the development of homegrown infrastructure that can be sold side-by-side with the standard in the industry. …