Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder and CEO, has a Q&A session at a press convention through the APEC CEO summit on October 31, 2025 in Gyeongju, South Korea.
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Nvidia shares fell on Tuesday after The Data reported that Meta is contemplating utilizing chips designed by Google.
Shares of Nvidia have been 3.6% decrease in premarket commerce. Google-parent Alphabet was buying and selling 4.2% increased after a greater than 6% rally on Monday.
On Monday, The Data reported that Meta is contemplating utilizing Google’s tensor processing items (TPUs) in its information facilities in 2027. Meta may additionally hire TPUs from Google’s cloud unit subsequent yr, the publication reported.
“Google Cloud is experiencing accelerating demand for each our customized TPUs and NVIDIA GPUs; we’re dedicated to supporting each, as we’ve got for years,” a Google spokesperson informed CNBC.
Google launched its first-generation TPU in 2018 and it was initially designed for its personal inside use for its cloud computing enterprise. Since then, Google has launched extra superior variations of its chip which can be designed to deal with synthetic intelligence workloads.
TPUs are a personalized chip and consultants say this offers Google a bonus over rivals as it may possibly supply clients a extremely environment friendly product for AI.
If Meta makes use of the TPUs, it could be massive win for Google and potential validation of the know-how.
Shares of Broadcom, which helps Google design its TPUs, have been up greater than 2% in premarket commerce on Tuesday after an 11% rise the day earlier than.
Nvidia stays the market chief with its graphics processing items (GPUs) which have turn out to be the primary piece of {hardware} underpinning the large AI infrastructure buildout. Whereas Nvidia’s dominance is unlikely to be dislodged within the close to time period, Google’s TPUs add additional competitors into the AI semiconductor market.
Corporations constructing AI infrastructure have been looking for a extra diversified provide of chips to cut back reliance on Nvidia.
Meta is among the many largest spenders on AI infrastructure, with the corporate projecting its capital expenditure to face between $70 billion to $72 billion this yr.
The share value strikes come amid continued debate round whether or not there’s an “AI bubble” and stretched tech firm valuations.
Nvidia has been central to the talk and the corporate final week reported a stronger-than-expected gross sales forecast for the present quarter however know-how shares fell after.
