Google engineers reported a 4.7x faster prefill and 3.1x faster decode for Qwen 3.5-397B-A17B on Ironwood TPUs between April and June, achieved by using data parallelism for attention layers and exper…
Solana developer Mert Mumtaz and Valor Group Founder Dev discussed Zcash's (ZEC) Ironwood update and future roadmap on The Rollup, revealing that an AI-powered security audit identified and fixed a vu…
A developer documented their migration of a Cloud TPU workload from the deprecated Cloud TPU API to Compute Engine, moving a v6e-1 chip serving gemma-4-E2B-it under vLLM. The migration required mappin…
Google released a microbenchmark suite on GitHub to help developers evaluate TPU performance by measuring network, compute, HBM, and host transfer capabilities. The suite establishes a Speed-of-Light …
Google's TPU clusters use 2D or 3D torus topologies with 4 or 6 nearest neighbors per chip, while NVIDIA GPU clusters rely on fat-tree topologies over InfiniBand, according to a July 14, 2026 technica…
Google's TPU v5p and upcoming Ironwood TPU7x offer higher raw matrix throughput and simpler interconnects than NVIDIA H100 GPUs for large-scale AI training, but GPUs remain superior for inference with…