Google grows TPU stash by ~$7bn in last year
As company seeks to increasingly sell TPUs, not just lease them
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Google developing new chip to run Gemini AI model more efficiently – report
The hardware, dubbed Frozen v2, is slated for launch in 2028
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Google to sell TPUs to a "select group of customers" for their data centers, increases capex forecast
Company sees strong Q1 for FY2026
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Google unveils eighth-generation TPUs, two dedicated training and inference chips
“Purpose-build architectures” designed to support model training and inference workloads
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Broadcom touts growing sales with Anthropic, AI orders
And a new unnamed XPU customer is teased
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Google must double AI capacity every six months to meet demand - report
All-hands meeting coinciding with GA of Ironwood release reveals extent of AI demand
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Google Cloud launches instances equipped with 5th Gen AMD Epyc processors
Available via C4D and H4D virtual machines
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Oracle and Google expand multicloud offering
Add new regions, bring availability to company partners, and plan new service
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Google launches A4X VMs powered by Nvidia GB200 NVL72
Currently available in preview
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Google makes custom Axion-based virtual machines generally available
Early adopters include Paramount Streaming and Spotify
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Google offers sneak peak at its Nvidia Blackwell GB200 NVL racks
Shortly follows Microsoft's similar preview
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Gen AI startup Magic partners with Google Cloud; closes $320m funding round
Claims cloud-based supercomputers will have 160 exaflops of performance
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Google Cloud gives Y Combinator startups dedicated Nvidia GPU cluster
And access to TPUs
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Apple to use Google's TPUs for AI instead of Nvidia GPUs
Apple Intelligence rolls out beta test this week
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Alice & Bob quantum processor available on Google Cloud Marketplace
Company pitching cat qubit-based system
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Tape Ark migrates tape-based sports broadcast videos to Google Cloud
Cloud ingest totals more than 40 petabytes of video
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Google unveils Axion, its first Arm-based CPU
Also reveals updates to TPU AI chip
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Anthropic to use Google TPU v5e chips to train generative AI models
Chip now generally available in Google's Cloud
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Apple is spending millions of dollars per day on generative AI training compute budget
Believes its internal systems are more advanced than GPT-3.5
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Google's in-house Arm data center CPUs pass key milestone ahead of reported 2025 cloud launch
One is based on Marvell tech
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Google increases server life to six years, will save billions of dollars
While Meta ups to five years
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Oracle announces Alloy cloud platform for resellers, regions planned in Chicago and Serbia
Big Red announces deals with HSBC, Oman, and the Premier League
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Google Cloud launches its first Arm-based VMs, with Ampere chips
Joining AWS and Azure
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Intel, AMD, Arm, Google and others set up Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express consortium
Nvidia is conspicuously absent from the roster
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Intel and Google Cloud partner to develop ASIC-based IPU, will sell data center chip to others
Could help lead to diskless server architectures
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Google unveils fourth generation TPU AI chip
Twice as powerful as the last TPU
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Deutsche Bank signs up with Google Cloud for IT overhaul
Deutsche will work with Google to get a much needed update to its systems
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Google offers IBM Power Systems on its cloud
Thought they were rivals?