Google and Intel are teaming up again to build better computer chips for AI and cloud computing, expanding a partnership that started in 2021.
San Francisco: Google and Intel are working together more closely. They want to make better computer chips for artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Google Cloud will keep using Intel Xeon processors, including the newest Xeon 6 chips, for AI work.
Intel makes four main kinds of chips: CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, and ASIC chips. CPUs are the main processing units in computers. Google and Intel have used Intel’s Xeon processors for many years. This partnership is growing.
Google and Intel will also work on special chips called infrastructure processing units or IPUs. IPUs help data centers work faster by taking some tasks away from CPUs. The two companies started this work in 2021. Now they will focus on making IPU chips together.
More companies want CPUs now because there aren’t enough of them. GPUs are good for making AI models but CPUs are still important for running them. Intel’s CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, said that making AI bigger needs balanced systems with both CPUs and IPUs. SoftBank’s Arm Holdings company also announced a new CPU chip recently because of the shortage.