Alphabet has unveiled its seventh-generation artificial intelligence chip named Ironwood, which the company said is designed to speed the performance of AI applications. The launch took place at the Cloud Next conference this week.
The Ironwood processor is designed to address the type of data crunching needed when users query software such as OpenAI's ChatGPT. Known in the tech industry as "inference" computing, the chips perform rapid calculations to render answers in a chatbot or generate other types of responses.
Next-gen AI processor
The chip is designed for running AI models and is expected to be available to Google Cloud customers later this year. Ironwood comes in 256-chip and 9,216-chip clusters, offering up to 4,614 TFLOPs and 192GB RAM per chip with 7.4 Tbps bandwidth.
It features an upgraded SparseCore to boost tasks like recommendations by reducing latency and improving energy efficiency. The chip will be integrated with Google’s AI Hypercomputer as part of its broader cloud infrastructure strategy.
Ironwood chip launch
Google has confirmed that the chip will debut later this year, without providing any specific launch date for its launch.
The search giant's multi-billion dollar AI chip also represents one of the few viable alternative chips to Nvidia's powerful AI processors.
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