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Google TPU Ironwood

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v7 TPU pods scaling to 9,216 chips, available through Google Cloud and used for Gemini.

Current version

v7 Ironwood

Entry cost

from ~$1.2 per chip-hour

Changes / 30d

1

Capabilities

  • 9,216-chip pods
  • inference optimised
  • liquid cooled
  • JAX + PyTorch/XLA

Pricing

  • On-demand

    per chip-hour

    $1.2

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

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Models under the hood

  • TPU v7

    Google

    disclosed

  • XLA compiler

    Google

    disclosed

Context window

—

Public API

yes

Multi-model routing

no

Stack signals

  • JAX
  • XLA
  • optical circuit switch
  • HBM3E

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unknown

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

  • version

    Ironwood (v7) TPUs reach general availability

    v5pv7 Ironwood

    source