Google was among the first hyperscalers build custom silicon for its services, starting first with tensor processing units (TPUs) for its AI initiatives, and then video transcoding units (VCUs) for the YouTube service. But unlike its industry peers, the company has been slower to adopt custom CPU designs, prefering to stick to off-the-shelf chips from the major CPUs. This is finally changing at Google, with the announcement that the company has developed its own in-house datacenter CPU, the Axion. Google's Axion processor is based on the Arm Neoverse V2 (Arm v9) platform, which is Arm's current-generation design for high-performance server CPUs, and is already employed in other chips such as NVIDIA's Grace and Amazon's Graviton4. Within Google, Axion is aimed at a wide variety of...
Updated: Intel's Honeycomb Reference Tablet: 8.9mm Thick, Medfield Inside
Paul Otellini showed this tablet off earlier today but we got a little more detail on it just moments ago. Intel has put together a 32nm Atom (Medfield) based...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011
Google: All Future Versions of Android Will be Optimized for Intel x86
Paul Otellini just showed off a Medfield based Android phone (running the "latest" version of Android) and immediately announced a development partnership with Google. Andy Rubin from Google just...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011
Schmidt Says Ice Cream Sandwich To Arrive October/November
Last Thursday, Eric Schmidt sat down for a keynote interview at Dreamforce '11, Salesforce.com's cloud computing conference held in San Francisco. The keynote covered a lot of history, several...
19 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/7/2011
Nexus S 2.3.6 Update Lands - Voice Fix Included
If you're a lucky owner of a Nexus S, Google's second flagship device that launched in December, chances are that you're well aware of the rather nagging voice search...
1 by Saumitra Bhagwat on 9/2/2011
Google Fiber Goes Live Near Stanford
Google announced last October that they would be beta testing their Google Fiber initiative in a small residential neighborhood affiliated with Stanford University, and one lucky Redditor posted the...
45 by Jason Inofuentes on 8/22/2011
Google Bolsters Music Beta With New Magnifier Blog
Google Music Beta, the search giant’s music streaming service, launched earlier this summer to tepid reviews before drifting into the background after the much-ballyhooed release of Spotify in the...
13 by Craig Getting on 8/19/2011
Observations on the Google-Motorola Purchase
If you've been on the Internet for very long today, you've probably already heard about this: Google intends to purchase Motorola Mobility Holdings for $12.5 billion, or about $40...
56 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/15/2011
Google Acquires Motorola Mobility
Google has just announced that they will acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (or more commonly known as just Motorola). Google will be paying $40 per share, which means a...
19 by Kristian Vättö on 8/15/2011
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 4G LTE Review
Using a tablet outside of the home in areas where WiFi isn't prevalent is unbelievably frustrating. Sure it's nicer to use the larger screen of a tablet compared to...
41 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/15/2011
Google Bringing Games to Google+
It was inevitable. Like Facebook before it, Google+ will have games. The online search leader recently announced their plans to “gradually roll out” gaming on their social network, which launched...
3 by Craig Getting on 8/12/2011
Google+ Traffic Declines As Novelty Wears Off?
Some of Google’s product launches distinctly remind me of this one South Park episode where Eric Cartman boosted visitor numbers at his theme park by artificially barring people from...
39 by Saumitra Bhagwat on 7/29/2011
Google I/O 2011 Keynote: Updates for Phone, Tablet, TV and Accessories
Google’s I/O 2011 keynote may have suffered from a few choice leaks, namely the new Music service and Ice Cream Sandwich announcement, but Google still managed to include some...
22 by Nirdhar Khazanie & Jason Inofuentes on 5/10/2011
Sprint and Google Announce Nexus S 4G and Native Google Voice
Today kicked off the start CTIA 2011, and Anand is already over in Orlando, Florida covering the event. I'm missing out this time, instead working on a couple of...
16 by Brian Klug on 3/21/2011
Google Android 3.0 - Honeycomb Preview
The tablet market today is a far more interesting place than it was just over a year ago. Since the launch of the iPad, there hasn’t been a real...
66 by Saumitra Bhagwat on 2/21/2011
[Updated with Gallery!] Google's Android Event, with Honeycomb and more!
We're at Google's Android event here at Mountain View. Sumptuous breakfast aside, we expect Google to talk in-depth about their Honeycomb release, other updates to the Android ecosystem and...
18 by Mithun Chandrasekhar on 2/2/2011
Anand's Thoughts on Google's Chrome OS
Fifteen years ago if you wanted to write an application that would run on over 90% of the world’s personal computers, you only needed to target one OS. Today...
109 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/8/2010
A Busy Day for Android - Nexus S and Gingerbread (2.3) Officially Announced
As expected, today Google announced Android 2.3 Gingerbread and the Nexus S. Android 2.3 is the latest iteration of Google’s popular smartphone platform, and includes a number of immediately...
45 by Brian Klug on 12/6/2010
A Taste of Froyo: Google Android 2.2 Explored
Since last year, the Android platform has seen a string of sugary, feature-filled updates starting with Cupcake (v1.5), followed by Donut (v1.6) and finally Éclair (v2.0/2.1) in November 2009...
58 by Saumitra Bhagwat on 6/23/2010
The 2010 Google I/O Developer Conference Roundup
The 2010 Google I/O Developer Conference concluded last week in San Francisco. Of the multitude of announcements made, there were three important developments from a consumer perspective. These include Announcement...
22 by Ganesh T S on 5/28/2010
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