All that and a bag of chips

Google is many things to many people. They’re one of the top search engines in the world, they’re the creators of the Android operating system for mobile phones, and they’re responsible for Blogger, the platform on which this site is hosted. And the list goes on.

But the Alphabet-operated juggernaut is about to expand into a new area – computer chips. On May 19, Google announced that the future of their organization will rely on a custom-designed chip that will power artificial intelligence systems. 

The past few years have seen Google undergo an unprecedented evolution from a search engine service to a relative giant in the realms of technology and IT. This progress has many people wondering just what they’ll do or create next.

While Google firmly believes that AI is the future of personal computing and user experience, should the creation of these new chips have companies like Intel and NVIDIA scrambling to maintain their market share?

Read more here:
http://www.wired.com/2016/05/googles-making-chips-now-time-intel-freak/