Google Turns to Samsung for Future AI Chip as Capacity Tightens

<p>Google is considering giving Samsung Electronics a crucial role in making a component of one of its most advanced future AI chips, as the ongoing manufacturing capacity crunch pushes chip firms to look for suppliers beyond Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.</p> <p>The U.S. tech giant is in talks with Samsung to manufacture part of a next-generation tensor processing unit&mdash;Google’s specialized AI chip used in its cloud data centers&mdash;with Samsung’s 2-nanometer production technology, according to two people with direct knowledge of the project. The chip, code-named Icefish, is currently planned as Google’s 10th-generation TPU, the two people said.</p>