Google’s first Arm-based CPU will challenge Microsoft and Amazon in the AI race

Google is making its own custom Arm-based CPU to support its AI work in data centers and introducing a more powerful version of its Tensor Processing Units (TPU) AI chips. Google’s new Arm-based CPU, dubbed Axion, will be used to support Google’s AI workloads before it rolls out to business customers of Google Cloud “later this year.”

The Axion chips are already powering YouTube ads, the Google Earth Engine, and other Google services. “We’re making it …

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