Google Cloud announces Ironwood (TPU v7)

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Announced Ironwood (TPU v7) — 9,216 chips per superpod

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A TPU for the inference era. Actual GA came on Mar 31, 2026

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Officialcloud.google.comhttps://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/ironwood-tpus-and-new-axion-based-vms-for-your-ai-workloads/

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