Google reportedly partnered with AMD on August 16, 2026, to develop its 10th-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). This collaboration marks AMD’s first major involvement in a custom AI application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) project.
The partnership signals Google’s intent to create a new hybrid AI chip. The proposed design integrates AMD CPU cores directly onto the package with Google’s accelerator technology.
This architecture specifically targets CPU-heavy artificial intelligence workloads such as reinforcement learning. The move aims to provide both companies a competitive advantage in the evolving AI hardware market.