TPU INFERENCE EXTERNALIZATION FULL STEAM AHEAD

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Google's TPUv7 Ironwood delivers up to 50% better performance per dollar compared to Nvidia's B200/B300 chips. Ironwood is the first generation in which Google is competing for others' inference workloads with chips that can be purchased outright or rented through its own cloud. Google has decades of software engineering experience, so external TPU software should mature rapidly. This article takes a look at the TPU system and discusses the steps needed to make the stack widely available.