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

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.

That standard is, of course, the MGX, HGX, and DGX platforms created by Nvidia, which use its current “Hopper” and “Blackwell” GPU accelerators and related NVLink and…