Yes, Google's latest Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) use technology from Credo, a company that provides high-speed connectivity solutions for data centers. Google is a major customer of Credo.
Credo is involved in providing the high-speed data center interconnection solutions that are crucial for linking the thousands of chips within a large-scale AI system like Google's TPU pods.
Key details about Google's latest TPUs and their technology:
- Latest Generation: Google's current seventh-generation TPU is called "Ironwood", which was released in November 2025. The sixth generation, "Trillium", was released earlier.
- Interconnect Technology: A single Ironwood pod can connect up to 9,216 units and requires massive interconnect bandwidth to function efficiently as one system. Credo's technology is used to facilitate these high-speed connections.
- Partnerships: Google partners with companies like Broadcom to design and manufacture its TPUs, and works with others like Credo for specific components like networking.
- Purpose: The TPUs are application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) optimized specifically for AI and machine learning workloads, from training large models to powering real-time chatbots.
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