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Google is actually working on 1st party datacenter chips. Although I doubt those would be user-facing GPUs.
by teaearlgraycold 3y ago
Google is actually working on 1st party datacenter chips. Although I doubt those would be user-facing GPUs.
- Laremere 3y agoGoogle Pixels have a "neural core", and they have edge TPUs in addition to their data center TPUs. However Google hardware seems much less poised to take immediate advantage of the AI gold rush.
- jeffbee 3y agoThe last decade of Google datacenter engineering can be viewed as an elaborate plan to avoid paying either Intel or Nvidia any more money than was really necessary.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoAnd, yet.
- what_ever 3y agoYet, what?
- kccqzy 3y agoYet, Google's customers still demand Google to pay Nvidia exorbitantly.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoAnd intel.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoGoogle has plenty of first party servers.
- ein0p 3y agoNobody other than Anthropic and a few other large cloud customers like that really cares what Google is working on. They bet the farm on a DL framework (Jax) with 2% market share. That’s a very deep hole to climb out of, particularly considering the popularity of PyTorch in generative AI space.