Google and Intel expand collaboration on AI teams

Google and Intel announced a multi-year expansion agreement on Thursday so that Google Cloud will continue to use Intel’s AI infrastructure and continue to develop processors together.

Google Cloud will use Intel’s Xeon processors, including the latest Intel Xeon 6 chips, for AI, cloud, and virtualization applications. The company has used various Intel Xeon processors over the years.

The companies will also expand the joint development of IPUs (IPUs), which help accelerate and manage data tasks by offloading them from CPUs.

This chip development contract, which starts in 2021, will focus on ASIC-type IPUs.

Intel declined to share details about retail pricing.

This growth comes because the industry is hungry for CPUs. While GPUs are used to create and train AI models, CPUs are essential for running AI models and within all AI applications.

“AI is redefining the way infrastructure is built and developed,” Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said in a media company. “Scaling AI requires more than accelerators – it requires the right systems. CPUs and IPUs are essential for delivering the performance, power and flexibility of today’s AI.”

Many companies have been focusing on CPUs in recent months as chips are getting smaller.

Owned by SoftBank Arm Holdings recently announced the Arm AGI CPUThe chip is the first that the semiconductor giant has made in-house, in the midst of a global CPU meltdown.