Google debuts two custom chips in latest bid to challenge Nvidia’s dominance

google unveiled two new custom chips on tuesday, the latest push to compete with nvidia in the ai hardware race. the new tensor processing units, called axion and trillium, promise better cost efficiency and improved storage functions compared to current offerings. they're designed to run ai models inside google's cloud data centers. the move follows similar custom chip efforts from amazon and microsoft, as major cloud providers try to reduce their reliance on nvidia's expensive gpus.