Google introduces the Ironwood chip to accelerate AI applications.
The Ironwood processor is designed to handle the kind of data processing required when users interact with programs like ChatGPT from OpenAI.
Ankush Pandey
Highlights
- Google introduces Ironwood, a seventh-generation AI processing chip.
- This model is intended to run AI applications.
- The business did not reveal which chip manufacturer was responsible for creating the Google design.
Google, a division of Alphabet, unveiled Ironwood, a seventh-generation AI chip, on Wednesday. According to the company, Ironwood is intended to improve the speed of AI applications. When users query programs like OpenAI's ChatGPT, the Ironwood processor is designed to handle the kind of data processing required. The chips carry out quick computations to produce responses in a chatbot or other forms of response, a process known in the tech sector as "inference" computing.
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Google vice president Amin Vahdat stated that the Ironwood chip is a model intended to run AI applications, or inference, and is made to function in groups of up to 9,216 chips.
Unveiled at a cloud conference, the new chip combines features from previous split designs and boosts memory capacity, making it more suitable for AI applications.
"It's just that the relative importance of inference is going up significantly," Vahdat stated.
According to Vahdat, the Ironwood chips offer twice the performance for the energy required when compared to Google's Trillium chip, which was unveiled last year. The business uses its own chips to develop and implement its Gemini AI models.
The manufacturer of the chips used to create the Google design was not disclosed by the company. President Donald Trump's abrupt tariff reversal caused Alphabet shares to spike during the regular session, closing up 9.7%.
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