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OCS · Optical Circuit Switch

A MEMS-mirror switch that reconfigures physical light paths instead of switching packets — the basis of Google's TPU pod interconnect.

Current numbers

9,216chips per Ironwood pod = 42.5 FP8 ExaFLOPS, ~1.77 PB aggregate HBM, OCS 3D-torusas of 2025-04 (announcement) · register ↗
4,614 FP8 TFLOPSper-chip TPU v7 Ironwood; 9,216-chip OCS pod = 42.5 FP8 ExaFLOPSas of 2025 · register ↗

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