Google Unveils New Axion Chips to Boost In-House AI and Cut Costs
- Google has unveiled new Axion chips to cut AI costs and reduce reliance on vendors like Nvidia
- Axion chips are based on Arm designs and optimize AI workloads in data centers
- Axion chips offer 30% better performance over similar Arm chips for cloud
- Snap is planning to test the new Axion chips
- Axion chips mark an expansion of Google's in-house chip business beyond tensor processing units (TPUs)