Google launches Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU chip—four times faster than predecessor—to challenge Nvidia's AI dominance as Anthropic plans to deploy 1 million units for Claude model.

Google's rolling out its most powerful AI chip, taking aim at Nvidia with custom silicon

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGoogle is making its most powerful chip yet widely available, the search giant's latest effort to try and win business from artificial intelligence companies by offering custom silicon.The company said on Thursday that the seventh generation of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), called Ironwood, will...