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Google unveils a new custom chip to supercharge tasks like search and AI
Google aims for its in-house chip Axion to be less reliant on others and compete stronger with cloud giants like Amazon and Microsoft.
Axion is Google's first custom Arm-based CPU for data centers, promising to provide significant performance improvements over current cloud tools. Google says Axion knocks it out of the park, crushing current Arm-based cloud tools by 30% and leaving even the latest x86-based virtual machines (VMs) in the dust, with a 50% performance boost. The company also makes special chips called "Tensor Processing Unit" (TPU) to help run its data centers, since way back in 2015.
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