Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, April 9th, 2025. I'm Brian McCalla today. Google unveils its new TPUs, this time with inference. Tammu and Shian officially get nuked from orbit.

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Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Google's Cloud Next conference is going on this week and there. Google unveiled Ironwood

its seventh generation TPU and the first it's ever made for inference, coming later in 2025 in a

256 chip cluster or a 9,216 chip cluster, quoting TechCrunch. Ironwood arrives as competition

in the AI accelerator space heats up.

Invidia may have the lead, but tech giants, including Amazon and Microsoft, are pushing their own in-house solutions.

Amazon has its tranium, inferentia, and graviton processors available through AWS, and Microsoft hosts Azure instances for its Cobalt 100 AI chip.

Ironwood can deliver 4,614 T-flops of computing power at peak,

according to Google's internal benchmarking.

Each chip has 192 gigabytes of dedicated RAM with bandwidth approaching 7.4 T-BPS.

Ironwood has an enhanced, specialized core, sparse core, for processing the types of

data common in advanced ranking and recommendation workloads, e.g. an algorithm that suggests

apparel you might like. The TPU's architecture was designed to minimize data movement and

latency on chip resulting in power savings, Google says.

Google plans to integrate Ironwood with its AI hypercomputer, a modular computing cluster in Google Cloud

in the near future. They added, end quote.

Google also launched Workspace Flows, an AI tool to automate multi-step processes in Alpha,

and new docs, sheets, meet, chat, and vids

features like audio in docs, quoting 9 to 5 Google. As first teased at I.O. last year, the company

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