NVIDIA's biggest competition in the AI industry, which has emerged as a formidable rival, is not currently AMD or Intel, but rather Google, which is catching up in the race. Interestingly, NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, is already aware of it.

Well, this might seem a bit surprising at first, but Google is one of the earliest competitors in the race for AI hardware, introducing their very first TPU custom AI chip back in 2016, way earlier than AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel. The tech giant introduced its newest '7th-generation' Ironwood TPUs last week, which took the industry by storm and solidified the idea of 'NVIDIA vs Google' as the most competitive AI race. We'll discuss in depth why we say this, starting with how Google's latest Ironwood TPUs compare to those of NVIDIA.

Google's Ironwood TPUs:

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