Computing · November 2025

Ironwood TPU

Google's inference chip scales to 9,216 chips in one pod.

Google's seventh-generation TPU reached general availability with 9,216-chip superpods sharing 1.77 PB of HBM, 10 times the peak performance of TPU v5p.

See it in the living tree Wikipedia Source

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 2

Tensor Processing Unit 2015
High Bandwidth Memory 2013

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

ML hardware FLOP/s per dollar Source: Epoch AI, ML hardware (CC BY 4.0)

Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)