Cloud giants self-developed chip competition intensifies, Google's Ironwood challenges NVIDIA's GPU dominance.

Zhixin Finance APP learned that Alphabet, the parent company of Google (GOOG.US, GOOGL.US), announced on Thursday that its seventh-generation self-developed artificial intelligence accelerator chip TPU Ironwood will be open to businesses and developers for use in the coming weeks. This chip made its debut as early as April this year, has now completed the testing phase, and is beginning to be gradually deployed.