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Google is relying on its own chips for its AI system Gemini. Here's why that's a seismic change for the industry

For many years, the US company Nvidia shaped the foundations of modern artificial intelligence. Its graphics processing units ...
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Google commits to Taiwan with largest AI hardware center outside the US

G oogle has opened its largest AI hardware center outside the United States in Taiwan, where its teams will build and test the machines that run the company’s AI systems. Google said the new Taipei ...
Yahoo Finance

Google just shook up the AI hardware race in a big way

Google isn't just joining the coveted AI chip race; it’s turning up the heat. The Alphabet (GOOGL)-owned tech giant’s new Ironwood processor, its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit, is now ...
Forbes

Google Drops New Smart Home Hardware With Gemini Running The Show

The long-awaited Google smart home revival is finally upon us, with the tech giant unveiling a bunch of new devices, all built with Gemini AI smarts powering the show. It has, as was widely expected, ...
Road to VR

Google’s AR Ambitions Stymied as Company Guts Hardware Team

Google is reorganizing a number of its hardware teams, which will see layoffs affecting a few hundred roles across its Devices & Services units. As reported by 9to5Google, Google’s first-party AR ...

New Google computer chip so fast it 'may rely on parallel universes'

A new type of chip has managed a calculation in minutes which would take the world’s best conventional supercomputer 10 ...
Android Authority

Big changes at Google: Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit teams to merge under one hardware umbrella

Google is consolidating its hardware teams into a single team handling Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit devices. The company has also laid off around a thousand employees. Fitbit co-founders James Park and ...
Ars Technica

Google merges the Android, Chrome, and hardware divisions

Google is doing a major re-org of Android, Chrome, and the Google hardware division: They’re merging! Google Hardware SVP Rick Osterloh will lead the new “Platforms and Devices” division. Hiroshi ...
Reuters

Google says it has cracked a quantum computing challenge with new chip

SANTA BARBARA, California, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab on Monday said that it has overcome a key challenge in quantum computing with a new generation of chip, solving a computing ...
TechCrunch

Google cuts over 1,000 jobs in its voice assistance, hardware teams as Fitbit founders leave

Google is laying off over 1,000 employees across multiple divisions, including engineering and services, late Wednesday. The affected divisions include voice-activated Google Assistant as part of the ...
9to5google

Google reorganizing Pixel hardware: Fitbit’s James Park leaving, layoffs hit AR team

Google is reorganizing the Devices & Services teams responsible for Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit hardware. This change was announced to employees today, and Google confirmed the changes in a statement to ...