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Core Viewpoint - The article discusses the increasing competition in the AI chip market, particularly how major tech companies like Google and Meta are accelerating their development of custom chips to reduce reliance on Nvidia's GPUs, with predictions that ASIC shipments will surpass Nvidia's AI GPU shipments as early as next year [1][2]. Group 1: Market Dynamics - Nvidia has historically dominated the AI chip market, holding over 80% market share in AI servers, while ASIC-based servers currently account for only 8% to 11% [2][4]. - Google is expected to ship between 1.5 million to 2 million of its self-developed AI chips (TPUs) this year, while Amazon's AWS is projected to ship 1.4 million to 1.5 million ASICs, bringing their combined shipments close to half of Nvidia's estimated annual GPU shipments of 5 million to 6 million [2][4]. Group 2: Cost Efficiency - The key advantage driving tech giants to develop their own chips is the reduction in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), with ASICs potentially saving 30% to 50% in TCO compared to GPUs [3]. - Google claims its TPUs can deliver three times the performance of Nvidia GPUs per unit of energy consumed, highlighting the efficiency of custom chips [3]. Group 3: Competitive Landscape - Meta is focusing on launching its new high-performance ASIC chip "MTIA T-V1" in Q4 of this year, aiming to outperform Nvidia's next-generation AI GPU "Rubin" [5]. - Despite ambitious plans, Meta faces production challenges due to limited advanced packaging capacity from TSMC, which can only provide 300,000 to 400,000 units, creating a bottleneck [5]. Group 4: Nvidia's Response - In response to the competitive threat, Nvidia has opened its proprietary "NVIDIA NVLink" communication protocol to facilitate integration with other companies' CPUs or ASICs, aiming to retain its major clients [6]. - Nvidia's established software ecosystem, CUDA, remains a significant barrier for competitors, as it allows AI developers to efficiently build and deploy applications, maintaining Nvidia's competitive edge [6].