Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab relied on chips designed by Google rather than industry leader Nvidia to build two key components of its artificial intelligence software infrastructure for its forthcoming suite of AI tools and features, an Apple research paper published on Monday showed.
Apple’s decision to rely on Google’s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab cloud infrastructure is notable because Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab produces the most sought-after AI processors.
Including the chips made by Google, Amazon.com (AMZN.O), opens new tab and other cloud computing companies, Nvidia commands roughly 80% of the market.
In the research paper, Apple did not explicitly say that it used no Nvidia chips, but its description of the hardware and software infrastructure of its AI tools and features lacked any mention of Nvidia hardware.
Apple did not comment on Monday.
The iPhone maker said that to train its AI models, it used two flavors of Google’s tensor processing unit (TPU) that are organized in large clusters of chips.