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Google splits its next TPU in two, and the AI chip war just became a design philosophy fight

The Next Web
Cristian Dina

Summary: Google made Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU, generally available at Cloud Next 2026 while previewing its eighth-generation architecture: TPU 8t (Sunfish), a Broadcom-designed training chip, and TPU 8i (Zebrafish), a MediaTek-designed inference chip, both targeting TSMC 2nm and late 2027. Ironwood delivers 4.6 petaFLOPS per chip and 42.5 exaFLOPS in a 9,216-chip superpod. The v8 […] This story continues at The Next Web