How Google’s TPUs Are Giving Nvidia a Run for Its Money

For as long as Nvidia Corp. has dominated the market for artificial intelligence chips, customers have made clear they’d like to see more competition. It turns out one of the most formidable alternatives may have been hiding in plain sight.

Google released its tensor processing units a decade ago to help speed up the company’s web search engine and boost efficiency. They were later adapted for machine learning tasks in Google’s AI applications.