Taking notes from AWS, Google prepares custom Arm server chips of its own
Google is understood to be developing its own custom Arm server processors, following in the footsteps of cloud rival AWS.virtual machines powered by Ampere Computing's Arm-based Altra processors, but in the wake of Amazon's in-house designed Graviton silicon, Google is said to be working on a pair of its own Arm-based server CPUs.
Both are said to be designed for 5nm production processes, and as Marvell is a fabless semiconductor company that uses Taiwan-based TSMC to produce its chips, it is possible that this is what Google also has planned. Mountain View's Google Cloud is aiming for performance from its new Arm server chips that will be comparable with that of server processors from Intel and AMD, according to the report.It isn't clear whether this means each individual core will be a match for an x86 core, which might be a tall order, or that the entire chip could best the performance of an Intel or AMD part by cramming in more cores.
However they shape up, producing its own tailor-made chips could be a more cost-effective strategy for Google in the long run than buying in x86 chips, which can cost thousands of dollars apiece, especially at the kind of scale cloud companies operate. According to the report, Google is looking to have its custom server chips in production sometime in the second half of 2024, with actual deployment in its datacenters by 2025.
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