Google's upcoming Ironwood TPU v7 has now emerged as the first viable Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) to take on NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs . This seismic event is, understandably, attracting quite a lot of scrutiny of Google's TPU design process and its partners in that endeavor, including Taiwan's MediaTek, which now stands to translate its experience into real-life efficiency gains for its bespoke chips, starting with the upcoming Dimensity 9600 SoC.

Google's Ironwood TPU v7 and MediaTek's role in it

Before jumping to MediaTek's Dimensity 9600, let's first discuss what all of the brouhaha around the Google Ironwood TPU v7 is all about. Here is everything that we know about the architecture of the new TPUs so far :

A dual-chiplet design, where each chiplet contains:

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