By Reuters

(Reuters) - Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL)'s Google is in talks with Marvell Technology (MRVL) to ‌develop two new chips aimed at ‌running AI models more efficiently, The Information reported on ​Sunday citing two people with knowledge of the discussions.

One of the chips is a memory processing unit designed to work with ‌Google's tensor ⁠processing unit (TPU) and the other chip is a new TPU built ⁠specifically for running AI models, the report said.

Google has been pushing to make its ​TPUs a ​viable alternative to ​Nvidia (NVDA)'s dominant GPUs. ‌TPU sales have become a key driver of growth in Google's cloud revenue as it aims to show investors that its AI investments are generating returns.

Reuters could not ‌immediately verify the report. ​Google and Marvell did ​not immediately ​respond to a request for ‌a comment.

The companies aim to ​finalize the ​design of the memory processing unit as soon as next year before ​handing it ‌off for test production, according to ​the report.

(Reporting by Angela Christy in ​BengaluruEditing by Tomasz Janowski)

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