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Google's TPU challenges NVIDIA's GPU dominance

Will Google’s TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) emerge as a rival to NVIDIA’s GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)? Last month, Google announced its new AI model ‘Gemini 3,’ stating, “We used our self-developed ...
NextBigFuture

Google Versus xAI AI Compute Scaling

Google Gemini 2 AI model (just released) were trained with over 100,000 Trillium chips have been deployed in a single network fabric, enabling massive-scale AI operations. xAI has already trained Grok ...
Seeking Alpha

Google said to turn to MediaTek for cheaper AI processors: report

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is turning to Taiwan-based MediaTek to help it develop and produce the next generation of its tensor processing unit processors, designed for artificial ...
Seeking Alpha

Google to launch 7th gen TPU Ironwood in coming weeks, stepping up challenge to Nvidia

Alphabet's (GOOG) (GOOGL) Google said its seventh generation Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU, called Ironwood, will be launched for public use in the coming weeks. The chip was unveiled in April for ...
insideHPC

Google Launches ‘Ironwood’ 7th Gen TPU

Google today introduced its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit, “Ironwood,” which the company said is it most performant and scalable custom AI accelerator and the first designed specifically ...
Digi Times

Google unveils seventh-generation TPU for AI inference era

At the Google Cloud Next '25 conference, the company introduced the seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), Ironwood, designed for AI inference. This chip highlights Google's progress toward ...
ExtremeTech

Apple Says It Trained Its AI Features on Google's Tensor Processing Units

Apple unveiled its first stab at adding AI features to its iPhone and Mac platforms back at WWDC in June, which it is calling Apple Intelligence. The company has now revealed in a technical paper that ...
Digi Times

Google's TPU and Gemini leap

Google's release of its Gemini 3 LLM in November—trained primarily on the company's in-house TPU chips— is performing at or above the level of OpenAI's ChatGPT. This development has become a catalyst ...
Network World

What are TPUs? Your guide to tensor processing units and AI acceleration

TPUs are Google’s specialized ASICs built exclusively for accelerating tensor-heavy matrix multiplication used in deep learning models. TPUs use vast parallelism and matrix multiply units (MXUs) to ...
Android Authority

Has Google's Tensor project failed?

Google’s next two generations of smartphones will continue to leave power users wanting in many regards. Would Google be better off going back to Snapdragon? Has Google’s Tensor project already failed ...
NextBigFuture

Nvidia Does $20 Billion Deal With Groq

The NVIDIA-Groq $20 billion deal announced on December 24, 2025 is a major strategic move in the AI hardware space. NVIDIA ...