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Big Tech's Custom AI Hardware Race

Companies like Meta, NVIDIA, and AMD are racing to design proprietary AI chips—from inference accelerators to novel CPU cores—to reduce reliance on standard GPUs and gain control over performance and costs.

Detected: 2026-07-12 · Updated: 2026-07-12

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