Srinagar, April 14 -- Google has introduced Ironwood, its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), marking a major leap in AI inference capabilities. Unveiled during Google Cloud Next '25, Ironwood is touted as the company's most powerful and scalable custom AI chip to date, purpose-built to handle the growing demands of modern AI systems.

Designed specifically for AI inference-the process of executing trained models to generate results-Ironwood will soon be available to developers through Google Cloud.

In a blog post, Google revealed that Ironwood will accelerate its shift from a reactive to a proactive AI infrastructure, supporting dense large language models (LLMs), mixture-of-experts (MoE) architectures, and agentic AI syste...