My @Google colleagues @NormJouppi, Sridhar Lakshmanamurthy, Cliff Young, and David Patterson recently wrote a paper tha…
By Jeff Dean · AI Infra
My @Google colleagues @NormJouppi, Sridhar Lakshmanamurthy, Cliff Young, and David Patterson recently wrote a paper that will appear in the July/August 2026 edition of @ieeemicro titled "Google's Training Supercomputers from TPU v2 to Ironwood: Architectural Stability, Scale, Resilience, Power Efficiency, and Sustainability Across Five Generations". It's chock full of interesting data about the evolution of TPU chip generations, as well as how workloads at Google have transformed over time…