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Pichai: Google's Ironwood TPU pod delivers over 40 exaflops

Sundar Pichai · Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet | The All-In Interview · May 16, 2025 · at 17:42

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, discusses Google's custom AI infrastructure stack and TPU silicon development with host David Friedberg.

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“Ironwood, which is our latest in our TPU series, a single part of Ironwood is over 40 exaflops, right?”

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The claim, plainly

Alphabet's Ironwood TPU pod delivers over 40 exaflops of compute performance.

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Assessment

Official Google Cloud technical documentation confirms that a full 9,216-chip Ironwood TPU (TPU v7) pod delivers up to 42.5 ExaFLOPS of peak FP8 compute performance, satisfying the claim that an Ironwood TPU pod delivers over 40 exaflops of compute performance.

Official Google Cloud documentation confirms an Ironwood TPU pod scales up to 9,216 chips.
Each Ironwood chip provides 4,614 TFLOPS of FP8 compute performance, yielding a total peak compute of 42.5 ExaFLOPS per pod.

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[1] blog.google [2] hyperframeresearch.com [3] google.com [4] spheron.network [5] binaryverseai.com [6] google.com [7] introl.com [8] reddit.com

Google Ironwood TPU exaflops Google TPU Ironwood benchmark specs

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