Google TPUs delivered Gemini 3 model challenging NVIDIA

NVIDIA now has a frontier model competitor with very deep pockets with Google making a real play for TPU general availability

Google’s latest TPU generation has created a hardware foundation that positions the Gemini 3 family as a direct challenger to NVIDIA’s top accelerators in both frontier-scale training and high-volume inference [1]. Ironwood TPUs introduce higher-density systolic arrays, larger unified memory pools, and a low-latency optical interconnect that allows very…