Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) and Google announced a multiyear collaboration to advance AI and cloud infrastructure development, focusing on CPU and custom infrastructure processing unit technologies.

The partnership involves continued deployment of Intel Xeon processors across Google Cloud infrastructure for AI, inference and general-purpose workloads. Google Cloud currently uses Intel Xeon 6 processors in its C4 and N4 instances to support various computing tasks from AI training coordination to inference and general-purpose computing.

The companies are expanding co-development of custom ASIC-based infrastructure processing units (IPUs). These programmable accelerators handle networking, storage and security functions typically managed by host CPUs, which the companies state improves utilization and performance in hyperscale AI environments.

"AI is reshaping how infrastructure is built and scaled," said Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Intel. "Scaling AI requires more than accelerators - it requires balanced systems. CPUs and IPUs are central to delivering the performance, efficiency and flexibility modern AI workloads demand."

Amin Vahdat, SVP and Chief Technologist for AI Infrastructure at Google, said CPUs and infrastructure acceleration remain central to AI systems across training, inference and deployment. Vahdat noted Intel has been a partner for nearly two decades and expressed confidence in Intel's Xeon roadmap for meeting performance and efficiency requirements.

The collaboration aims to combine general-purpose compute with infrastructure acceleration to create what the companies describe as more balanced AI system design. Intel and Google will align across multiple generations of Intel Xeon processors to address performance, energy efficiency and total cost of ownership across Google's global infrastructure.

The information comes from a joint press release statement issued by Intel Corporation.