Article Brief Key Takeaways 5 Points30s Read 01Availability–Ironwood reached general availability on April 22, 2026, but Google publishes no on-demand price for it, while Trillium (v6e) and older TPUs still carry public rates. 02The estimate–The…
Qwen3.5 on Ironwood: What Google’s 4.7x Gain Proves
July 14, 2026
Article Brief Key Takeaways 4 Points24s Read 01Measured gain–Google reports 4.7x higher prefill-heavy and 3.1x higher decode-heavy throughput at concurrency 512. 02Real baseline–The comparison is Google’s April-to-June Ironwood software progress, not a new hardware generation….