FYI: Those fancy 'Google-designed' TPU AI chips had an awful lot of Broadcom help

A now-challenged report that Google wants to end its reliance on Broadcom has drawn attention to the role the San-Jose-based electronics giant plays in the production of custom silicon for hyperscale clouds. On Thursday, The Information reported, behind its paywall, that a "person with direct knowledge" of these things said …

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Google is only a wannabe, just like it did with Samsung Exinos did little changes and is now is called google Tensor chip, or like Apple sees a buffet of chip cores from ARM which is owned by the Japanese and voila an Apple chip with Samsung, NVIDIA, Broadcom, Imagination technologies owned by China license their IP to Google and Apple so they can put together a new version of ARM and graphics chips.... They are simply paper tigers and the reazon they are expensive is because they have to pay licensing fees to every one including Huawei....