Google (GOOGL) and Broadcom (AVGO) have scored a major hit with their jointly-developed Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) artificial-intelligence chips, even landing a new order from AI start-up Anthropic.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Groq's founder Jonathan Ross, who will join Nvidia as part of the licencing deal, is one of the creators of Google ...

Google launches 'TorchTPU' initiative to enhance TPU compatibility with PyTorch, aiming to rival Nvidia's GPU market lead with Meta's collaboration.

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 ...

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 ...