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Message: [QUOTE="Nehanda, post: 29070, member: 2262"] Google plans to team up with MediaTek for its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit, TPU v7. Despite adding this new partner, they'll keep working with Broadcom. The AI chip should start production in 2026, with TSMC handling the manufacturing part. According to Economic Daily News, Google will design the main architecture itself, but MediaTek will take care of the input/output systems and other supporting parts. This setup differs from how Google works with Broadcom, where both companies help create the core TPU design together. Google probably picked MediaTek because they have good connections at TSMC and charge less than Broadcom does. Some people think MediaTek might focus on building chips for running AI models, leaving Broadcom to handle chips for training those models. The TPU market has grown huge since Google uses countless chips across its business. They might even need yet another company to help meet demand. By creating these special AI processors, Google pushes forward with its strategy of building more tech in-house. This helps them depend less on NVIDIA hardware for AI research and cloud services. Other big AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta still rely heavily on NVIDIA chips to train and run their AI systems. For a company as large as Google, which answers billions of questions every day, making custom chips makes sense both financially and technically. Google has spent years figuring out how to turn its specific computing needs into specialized hardware that works better for it. [/QUOTE]

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