According to CNBC, Google is rolling out its most powerful AI chip yet. Ironwood will be widely available in the coming weeks. The TPU has been in development for ten years. Ironwood is Google's seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), initially launched for testing in April.
According to Google, Ironwood is more than four times faster than its predecessor, and major customers are already in the queue. Google states that artificial intelligence... Startup Anthropic plans to use up to 1 million new TPUs to run its Claude model.
Google says the new Ironwood TPU connects up to 9,216 chips in a single pod, eliminating “data bottlenecks on the most demanding models” and enabling customers to “run and scale their largest, most data-intensive models.”
Google is working with Microsoft Amazon NVIDIA is engaged in a high-stakes race with competitors like Metaverse to build the infrastructure for the future of artificial intelligence . Currently, most large language models and AI workloads rely on NVIDIA. While GPUs are graphics processing units, Google's TPUs fall into the category of custom chips and have advantages in price, performance, and energy efficiency.
Google shares surged in pre-market trading in the US, rising 1.54% as of press time.
Shanghai Securities News reporters learned from domestic PCB Industry insiders have learned that Google has recently visited Shenghong Technology. Several major domestic PCB manufacturers are expected to conduct inspections or negotiate the purchase of PCBs for artificial intelligence chips. If these potential orders materialize, they will significantly boost the PCB industry chain.
On November 6, PCB leader Shenghong Technology surged 5.97%.
(Source: Shanghai Securities) (Report)
