Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has publicly pushed back against the narrative of a “chip war”, wherein custom AI chips like Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are seen as a threat to Nvidia’s ...

Google’s custom TPU chips are emerging as a serious challenger to NVIDIA’s GPUs, driven by potentially lower total cost of ownership through cheaper pricing and higher energy efficiency. Investor ...

What’s the difference between a GPU and a TPU? It’s a wonkish question, to be sure, but one that has a lot of interesting applications to the AI arms race, where companies are trying to be the go-to ...

Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Google’s secret weapon in the artificial intelligence race is a chip that has helped the search group’s ...

Investing.com -- Graphics chip giant Nvidia’s latest Blackwell Ultra GPUs and search giant Google’s TPU v7 Ironwood processors present sharply different approaches to artificial intelligence computing ...

Last week, The Information reported that Meta is in talks to buy billions of dollars’ worth of Google’s A.I. chips starting in 2027. The report sent Nvidia’s stock sliding as investors worried the ...

The private equity backer of Burger King UK is weighing a takeover bid for Advanced Medical Solutions Group, a London-listed producer of surgical products. Sky News has learnt that Bridgepoint is ...

Visitors view HBM4 at Samsung Electronics' booth during the 27th Semiconductor Grand Exhibition (SEDEX 2025), held in October this year at COEX in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. /News1 Samsung Electronics has ...

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Google has officially unveiled “Ironwood,” its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU v7), marking a decisive shift in its silicon strategy. Unlike previous generations that were primarily ...

Google’s system leverages optical circuit switching (OCS) to create direct, low-latency optical paths between TPU chips, minimizing signal conversion losses. They avoid repeated ...