News Summary

• Google and Intel announced an expanded multiyear partnership on Thursday for Google Cloud to continue utilizing Intel AI infrastructure.
• The companies will also expand the co-development of custom infrastructure processing units (IPUs), which help accelerate and manage data center tasks by offloading them from CPUs.Intel declined to share any information regarding pricing for the deal.
• This expansion comes as the industry is hungry for CPUs.
• While GPUs are used for developing and training AI models, CPUs are crucial for running AI models and within generalAI infrastructure.