United Kingdom, April 9 -- Google and Intel have expanded their long-running partnership for artificial intelligence (AI) chips.

Google confirmed it will adopt multiple generations of Intel's central processing units (CPUs) across its AI data centres - expanding a relationship that dates back nearly three decades.

The move will see Intel's latest Xeon 6 chips deployed for both AI training and inference workloads.

The announcement signals a notable shift in the AI hardware landscape, where graphics processing units (GPUs), particularly from Nvidia, have dominated.

Increasingly, however, CPUs are becoming critical as AI systems scale in complexity.

Amin Vahdat, Google's chief technologist for AI infrastructure, said in a statement that...