opinion Look out, Jensen! With its TPUs, Google has shown time and time again that it's not the size of your accelerators that matters but how efficiently you can scale them in production.

Now with its latest generation of Ironwood accelerators slated for general availability in the coming weeks, the Chocolate Factory not only has scale on its side but a tensor processing unit (TPU) with the grunt to give Nvidia's Blackwell behemoths a run for their money.

First announced in April alongside a comically bad comparison to the El Capitan supercomputer — no, an Ironwood TPU Pod is not 24x faster than the Department of Energy's biggest iron — Google's TPU v7 accelerators are a major leap in performance over prior generations.

Historically, Google's TPUs have paled in comparison to contempora

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