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Google Follows Suit With Microsoft On Ampere Arm Instances

July 15, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

A long time ago, when we first started The Next Platform, Urs Hölzle, then senior vice president of the Technical Infrastructure team at Google, told us that to gain a 20 percent improvement in price/performance it would absolutely change from the X86 architecture to Power architecture – or indeed any other architecture – and even for one generation of machines. …

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