Google's cloud business is a primary engine of growth, and the company's custom-built chips called Tensor Processing Units are helping drive it.
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Nvidia
has established itself as the undisputed leader in artificial intelligence chips, selling large quantities of silicon to most of the world’s biggest tech companies en route to a $4.5 trillion market cap.
One of Nvidia’s key clients is Google
, which has been loading up on the chipmaker’s graphics processing units, or GPUs, to try and keep pace with soaring demand for AI compute power in the cloud.
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OpenAI said it might buy AI chips from Google. Nvidia won the deal by cutting its GPU price 30%. By 2030, Google's AI chip market…
Much of Google's AI software doesn't run on industry-standard Nvidia chips, but instead on its own tensor processing units.…
