Alphabet says Spotify, Paramount sign to use new cloud chip

(Reuters) – Google Cloud, a unit of Alphabet Inc, said on Wednesday that Spotify Technology and Paramount Global are using a new chip that it designed with technology from Arm Holdings to power their streaming services.
Google has made the new Axion chip, a central processing unit, or CPU, available to all customers on its cloud service. It is expected to compete for software developers' budgets against traditional offerings from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
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Alphabet says Spotify, Paramount sign to use new cloud chip

Google’s strong earnings boosted by cloud computing growth

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The standout unit was Google Cloud, where revenue increased 35%. Photo / Christie Hemm Klok, The New York Times, File
Alphabet’s profit jumped 34% in the third quarter, as the US search giant reported strong growth in cloud computing amid robust demand for computing and data services used to train and run generative artificial intelligence models.

Net income was US$26.3 billion ($44b) compared with $19.7b in […]
Google’s strong earnings boosted by cloud computing growth