19 August 2026

Google partners with AMD on next-generation AI chip design

• Google and AMD are collaborating to build a 10th-generation TPU, Google's custom AI processor, with integrated CPU cores on the same physical chip.
• The design combines AMD's x86 processor technology with advanced 3D stacking techniques to reduce the distance between CPU and GPU-like components.
• The partnership targets workloads where software agents need to make quick decisions, reducing delays between computation steps that currently require separate chips to communicate.

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Google is working with AMD to develop a 10th-generation TPU variant with on-package CPU cores and advanced 3D packaging. The hybrid design leverages AMD's x86 CPU IP and packaging expertise to handle complex reinforcement learning and agentic workloads requiring low-latency CPU-to-accelerator compute.