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Sunday, Jul 06, 2025

AI Giants Contest Nvidia's Supremacy with Emerging Chip Innovations

Prominent tech firms are initiating efforts to create alternative AI chips in response to the disruptions brought about by DeepSeek.
The entry of DeepSeek, a Chinese firm, into the AI chip sector has spurred leading tech companies to hasten their initiatives to create their own processors and diminish their dependence on Nvidia, which currently commands approximately eighty percent of the global AI chip market.

Prominent players such as OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Apple are now mobilizing strategies to manufacture chips deemed 'good enough' for their next-generation artificial intelligence models.

OpenAI, closely linked to the generative AI movement, is designing its own AI chip to reduce its reliance on Nvidia.

In January, OpenAI, in partnership with SoftBank and Oracle and with backing from President Donald Trump, initiated a project named StarGate.

This initiative, valued at five hundred billion dollars, aims to establish a substantial artificial intelligence computing framework in the United States.

Sources indicate that OpenAI is in the advanced stages of design and anticipates completing it in the coming months, after which the project will enter the experimental production and testing phase with Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC.

The experimental production phase is expected to cost tens of millions of dollars and last approximately six months, with mass production slated for two thousand twenty-six.

Simultaneously, Meta is in talks to acquire the South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI, with reports indicating that the agreement could be finalized soon.

Additionally, Meta has launched a new generation of AI chips known as the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator, aimed at traditional AI tasks like running recommendation models.

Microsoft is also developing a range of chip products to boost the performance of AI models and improve its data centers.

Similarly, Amazon is creating an ecosystem of AI chips for its vast cloud computing division and revealed its latest AI training and execution chip, Trainium Three, in December.

Trainium Three leverages technology from the Israeli firm Annapurna, which Amazon purchased in two thousand fifteen for three hundred seventy million dollars, and is expected to be available later this year.

Google is incorporating its artificial intelligence models into the process of developing its own AI chips, a project spearheaded by its DeepMind division, which focuses on automating chip design.

Apple is also ramping up its chip development initiatives.

In December, reports emerged that Apple’s team, responsible for the proprietary M chip, is now spearheading the creation of its first server chip intended for AI applications.

This effort involves collaboration with chip manufacturer Broadcom on networking technology, with plans to kick off mass production in two thousand twenty-six following an agreement with TSMC.

These initiatives mark a strategic change by major tech companies to gain greater control over their computing resources and potentially challenge Nvidia's prevailing status in the AI chip market.

These efforts are seen as a reaction to the evolving landscape in AI model development, partly influenced by the cost-effective strategies demonstrated by DeepSeek’s R1 model.
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