Cloud TPU — Ironwood, Trillium, Slices, Multislice and Capacity
How Cloud TPUs really work and what they cost in October 2026: Ironwood (TPU7x), Trillium (v6e), v5p and v5e, slices and topologies across hosts, TPU VMs versus GKE TPU node pools, queued resources, reservations, flex-start, calendar mode and Spot, Multislice over the data center network, and checkpointing that survives a preemption.
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