Google is trying to make cloud computing more affordable with a custom-built Arm -based server chip.
With the new Arm-based chip, Google is playing catch-up with rivals such as Amazon and Microsoft, which have been employing a similar strategy for years.
Google has used Arm-based server computers for internal purposes to run YouTube advertising, the BigTable and Spanner databases and the BigQuery data analytics tool.
Arm chips, which are popular in smartphones, offer a shorter set of instructions than x86 chips, which are commonly found in PCs.
Axion offers 30% better performance than the fastest general-purpose Arm-based virtual machines in the cloud and 50% better performance than than comparable VMs based on x86, Google said.
Persons:
Chirag, Gartner, Graviton, Alibaba, Thomas Kurian, Dekate, Christina Malbon
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Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Gartner, Amazon Web Services, Chirag Dekate, CNBC, Oracle, Arm Holdings, AMD, Intel
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