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GOOGLEarnings2025-04-24
Sundar Pichai described Alphabet's newest in-house AI chip and how it compares with the prior generation on compute power and power efficiency.
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Sundar Pichai · Alphabet Investor Relations · Alphabet 2025 Q1 Earnings Call
“Ironwood, our seventh-generation TPU and most powerful to date, is the first designed specifically for inference at scale. It delivers more than 10X improvement in compute power over our recent high-performance TPU, while being nearly twice as power efficient.”
Key terms
- TPU
- — A chip Google designs itself to run artificial intelligence workloads.
- inference
- — The stage where a trained AI model actually answers questions or produces results for users.
- power efficient
- — Getting more computing work done for each unit of electricity consumed.
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