Google Preps for IBM, ARM Shift
Search giant could pivot on ISAs
Rick Merritt, EETimes
4/7/2016 09:43 AM EDT
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Google is preparing for the possibility it may shift its massive data centers from Intel x86 to IBM Power servers. It also is preparing for the possibility it may shift to ARM servers, but it’s not quite as far along on that path.
The search giant gave a peak at just how prepared it is to move to IBM Power servers at the annual Open Power Summit here. It has now ported to the Power8 server it developed two years ago many Google apps and most of Google’s infrastructure software.
“For good software developers enabling Power is just modifying a flag in a config file and off they go,” said Maire Mahony, an engineering manager in Google’s platform group that is responsible for its data center hardware and a director of the Open Power Foundation.
To read the full article, click here
Related Semiconductor IP
- JPEG XL Encoder
- LPDDR6/5X/5 PHY V2 - Intel 18A-P
- ML-KEM Key Encapsulation & ML-DSA Digital Signature Engine
- MIPI SoundWire I3S Peripheral IP
- ML-DSA Digital Signature Engine
Related News
- Google, IBM, Mellanox, NVIDIA, Tyan Announce Development Group for Data Centers
- Google Cloud Delivers Customized Silicon Powered by Arm Neoverse for General-Purpose Compute and AI Inference Workloads
- Taiwan makes slow shift toward greater respect for IP
- DSP design tools shift to SystemC
Latest News
- Are Synopsys Layoffs a Harbinger of the AI-Assisted Design Era?
- EnSilica to develop quantum-resilient secure processor chip for critical national infrastructure applications backed by £5m UK Government ‘Contract for Innovation’
- CAST Introduces JPEG XL Encoder IP Core for High- Quality, On-Camera Still-Image Compression
- PGC Strengthens Cloud and AI ASIC Acceleration with Synopsys’ Next-Generation Interface and Memory IP on Advanced Nodes
- IntelPro Licenses Ceva Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 IPs to Launch AIoT Matter-Ready SoCs