TREE NEWS reports: Google is using Oracle’s cloud platform as an additional channel to sell its Tensor Processing Units, stepping up competition with Nvidia in the AI chip market. Google began selling TPUs to external customers only in the second quarter of this year, despite starting in-house chip development in 2013. Google Cloud chief Thomas Kurian worked at Oracle for more than 20 years before joining Google in 2018.
Google taps Oracle Cloud to sell TPUs, expanding AI chip push
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The significance here is less about the chips than about distribution: Google is borrowing a rival cloud's reach to move silicon, a notable admission that its own channel has limits. Kurian's Oracle background adds a personal thread to a corporate deal. This affects cloud buyers weighing accelerator options and Nvidia's competitive position. Whether TPUs sold through third-party clouds gain real traction beyond Google's own platform is the open question.
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