📌 Overview
Google quietly turned its internal TPU supercomputer into a commercial weapon — and the result could upend Nvidia’s dominance in AI hardware. By combining massive cluster scale, far better energy efficiency, and aggressive software moves like OpenXLA, Google is lowering costs and raising the bar for large-scale model training. This episode examines the technical, economic, and strategic forces that make Ironwood a potential game-changer, why customers like Anthropic matter, and what it means for who can build state-of-the-art AI.
What we'll discuss:
- ⚡ TPU vs GPU: power and cost comparison
- 🧮 Scale: 9,216-chip clusters explained
- 🧰 OpenXLA and the software switching story
- 🤝 Customer wins: Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI signals
- 🏗️ Economic impact on model builders
- 🔮 Market future: bifurcation and competitive effects
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Google's TPU Play That Threatens Nvidia
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