On November 6, Google is poised to unveil its most powerful chip to date, with the intention of drawing AI companies to collaborate by utilizing its custom - designed silicon. On Thursday, Google made an announcement that its seventh - generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), named 'Ironwood,' will be officially launched into the public market in the upcoming weeks. This chip was initially provided to testing and deployment users back in April of this year.

This in - house developed chip is set to be applied in various tasks, including large - scale model training, real - time chatbot operations, and the functioning of AI agents. The journey of TPU development has been a decade - long endeavor. Google has claimed that Ironwood boasts a performance that is over four times superior to its previous version. Already, a number of major clients are eagerly waiting in line to incorporate it into their systems. For instance, the AI startup Anthropic has plans to utilize up to 1 million of these new TPUs to power its Claude model.