Google unveils Ironwood, its 7th-gen AI chip to boost application speed

Alphabet’s on Wednesday unveiled its seventh-generation artificial intelligence chip named Ironwood, which the company said is designed to speed the performance of AI applications.

The Ironwood processor is geared toward the type of data crunching needed when users query software such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Known in the tech industry as “inference” computing, the chips perform rapid calculations to render answers in a chatbot or generate other types of responses.