Google unveils Ironwood TPU for reasoning-model inference at exaflop scale
Google introduced its seventh-generation Ironwood TPU, scaling to 9,216 chips and 42.5 exaflops per pod for dense and mixture-of-experts reasoning-model inference, with customer availability planned later in 2025.
TOWARD DOOM51confidence 60/100
Why it moved the index
A hyperscaler announcing a large inference-compute step reduces future serving constraints for frontier reasoning systems. Competitive acceleration from planned availability is one supported inference, so confidence is capped at 60.
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New announced frontier inference-compute generation with no durable event collision.
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