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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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Google Does The Server Math With Tau Cloud Instances

June 21, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

In a world where Moore’s Law is slowing and hardware has to be increasingly co-designed with the system software stack and the applications that run above it, the matrix of possible combinations of hardware is getting wider and deeper. …

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