Silicon smackdown.

The article reports on the rivalry between chipmaker Nvidia and technology company Google in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) chips with Google's launch of Gemini 3 AI model, which was trained on Google chips called tensor-processing units (TPU). It refers to CUDA, the software platfo...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 457; no. 9476; p. 57
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 11/29/2025
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