Alphabet’s google stock price is holding near $365 as the search giant taps Intel for multiple generations of processors to power its artificial intelligence data centers, an expansion of an existing partnership announced in April.
Google committed to using Intel’s newest Xeon 6 central processing units to run AI training and inference workloads, marking a significant move in an AI infrastructure market long dominated by Nvidia. The deal signals confidence in Intel’s chip roadmap as the company works to regain ground in advanced semiconductor manufacturing.
The partnership also includes collaboration on infrastructure processing units, or IPUs, which the two companies have developed together since 2022. These programmable accelerators offload networking, storage, and security functions from main CPUs, helping customers better utilize traditional data center resources.
Amin Vahdat, Google’s chief technologist for AI infrastructure, said the Xeon roadmap gives the company confidence to meet growing performance and efficiency demands. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan emphasized that scaling AI requires balanced systems beyond accelerators alone.
No financial terms were disclosed, and the companies provided no timeline for implementation. Google continues to develop its own custom chips, including tensor processor units and its Axion ARM-based CPU, while also relying on Intel processors for core infrastructure needs.
Sources
- CNBC — Google’s commitment to multiple generations of Intel chips for AI data centers, Intel Xeon 6 CPU specifications, and IPU collaboration details
- Google Finance — Alphabet stock price at $365.76
- Robinhood — Alphabet stock price trading range and current price near $364
