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.
The search giant’s multi-billion dollar, roughly decade-long effort represents one of the…