Google to introduce two variants of its in-house chips, Bloomberg News reports

Google announced on November 9 that it will release two updated versions of its in-house chips, according to a report from Bloomberg News. The tech giant's shares rose over 2 percent in premarket trading following the news. However, the stock has declined by 9 percent so far in 2022. Alphabet, Google's parent company, did not immediately comment on the report, and Reuters could not independently verify the information.

Google's custom-built processors, previously used solely for internal purposes, have begun to challenge Nvidia's high-end graphics cards that have long dominated AI processing worldwide. The two new chip variants, the 8tx and 8i Max, are not entirely new but rather reconfigured models tailored to meet specific customer demands. The 8tx is targeted at secure and confidential workloads for government agencies and businesses in regulated sectors, while the 8i Max caters to AI applications that necessitate long context windows, as stated by Google's chief AI infrastructure technologist, Amin Vahdat, to Bloomberg News.