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April 9, 2025 / Max Weinbach

Google Cloud Next 2025: Ironwood TPU, Agent Toolkits, and Google’s vertical advantage

Key Takeaways: Google Cloud unveiled Ironwood (TPUv7), its first inference-optimized TPU, offering massive leaps in compute (5x), HBM capacity (6x), and power efficiency (2x) over the previous generation. Performance is estimated to be within 5% of an Nvidia B200, despite TPUv7’s single primary compute die design. New Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol…

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