Google's rolling out its most powerful AI chip, taking aim at Nvidia with custom silicon

Ana Maria Rus

Google is making its most powerful chip yet widely available, the search giant's latest effort to try and win business from artificial intelligence companies by offering custom silicon. The company said on Thursday that the seventh generation of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), called Ironwood, will hit the market for public use in the coming weeks, after it was initially introduced in April for testing and deployment. The chip, built in-house, is designed to handle everything from the

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