Google Develops the Axion Chip, a New Semiconductor Designed to Reduce Dependency on External Suppliers and Combat Rising Costs of Artificial Intelligence. This chip, which is used in large data centers, is capable of handling various tasks from YouTube advertising to analyzing large volumes of data. With this initiative, Google enters into competition with long-standing partners such as Intel and Nvidia, although the company emphasizes that it is not about competition but an opportunity for market expansion.

This development follows the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI at the end of 2022, which has triggered an arms race in the field of artificial intelligence. Google has already developed specialized AI chips earlier and uses them to save costs for AI-intensive services.

Alongside Google, other cloud giants such as Amazon.com and Microsoft are investing in the development of their own chips to meet the demand for computing resources for artificial intelligence. Google plans to make the Axion chips available to external customers later this year and emphasizes the efficiency of these new processors compared to similar products.

This strategy by Google to rent out its own chips to cloud customers instead of selling them directly differentiates the company from other semiconductor manufacturers and emphasizes the focus on providing cloud services and artificial intelligence. The investment in the Axion chip underscores Google's efforts to remain a leader in the field of artificial intelligence and to meet the growing demand for specialized computing resources.