2 papers
cs.AR2026
Google's Training Supercomputers from TPU v2 to Ironwood: Architectural Stability, Scale, Resilience, Power Efficiency, and Sustainability Across Five Generations
Norman P. Jouppi, Sridhar Lakshmanamurthy, Cliff Young +1
This paper (to appear in the July/August 2026 issue of IEEE Micro magazine) summarizes five generations of Google s TPUs, from TPU v2 to Ironwood, highlighting their evolution as s…
cs.AR2017
In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit
Norman P. Jouppi, Cliff Young, Nishant Patil +72
Many architects believe that major improvements in cost-energy-performance must now come from domain-specific hardware. This paper evaluates a custom ASIC---called a Tensor Process…