- Google is collaborating with MediaTek and Samsung on chip design, while TSMC produces components for its AI processors, competing with Nvidia.
- Broadcom is developing next-gen AI accelerators for Google amid intense rivalry in the AI chip market.
- Google will co-design the next generation of its TPU chip (TPUv9) with MediaTek, while acknowledging that Broadcom's market share of Google's silicon will slide.
Nvidia invested $3.5 billion in MediaTek, and Alphabet is partnering on the TPU v8i design.
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Updated Sep 2
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What happened
Nvidia invested $3.5 billion in MediaTek, and Alphabet is partnering on the TPU v8i design.
Who's involved
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The entities involved
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Nvidia
American multinational technology company
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Google
American multinational technology company, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
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MediaTek
Taiwanese semiconductor company
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MediaTek
Taiwanese semiconductor company
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