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...
Steam Link App to Bring Steam Games to iOS & Android-Based Phones, Tablets and TVs
Valve this week announced plans to enable streaming of games from Steam library to devices running Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems. Separately, Valve plans to make Steam...
17 by Anton Shilov on 5/10/2018
Google Kicks Off Android P Beta, Details Shush Mode, Usage Dashboard, & Other New Features
Today at Google I/O 2018, Google announced several new Android P features that will see adoption in the newest Beta released today. We’ve first covered a few of P’s...
13 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/8/2018
Google I/O 2018 Opening Keynote Live-Blog (10am PT)
Hello everybody and welcome to the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View where we're live at Google's IO 2018 opening keynote.
18 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/8/2018
Acer Announces Chromebook Tab 10: A Tablet Running Google’s Chrome OS
This week Acer introduced its first tablet running Chrome OS, a tablet positioned primarily for the education market. Chrome OS runs Android applications from Google Play store and is...
13 by Anton Shilov on 3/27/2018
Google Announces Cloud TPU v2 Beta Availability for Google Cloud Platform
This week, Google announced Cloud TPU beta availability on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), accessible through their Compute Engine infrastructure-as-a-service. Using the second generation of Google’s tensor processing units...
8 by Nate Oh on 2/15/2018
Google to Shut Down Project Tango in Favor of ARCore
Google announced on Friday that it would cease support for its Tango computer vision and augmented reality initiative on March 1, 2018. The company urges Tango developers to migrate...
16 by Anton Shilov on 12/18/2017
Google Announces Go-Edition of Android 8.1
With the release of Android 8.1 tomorrow Google also announcement of a Go-edition of Android Oreo. The Android team has been hard at work optimizing the operating system to...
17 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/5/2017
Intel’s Diane Bryant Retires, Joins Google Cloud as COO
After 32 years with Intel, Diane Bryant, who served as the head of Intel's Data Center Group from 2012 to mid-2017, decided to retire from the company. Ms. Bryant...
19 by Anton Shilov on 12/4/2017
Google Launches Pixelbook: 12.3” LCD, Kaby Lake, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, Assistant, Stylus
On Wednesday, Google launched a new iteration of its own Chrome OS-based laptops. The new notebook has a different form-factor and can be transformed into a tablet. It has...
76 by Anton Shilov on 10/4/2017
Hands On With Google’s Pixel 2 XL: More Pixels, More Google
This morning at a press event in San Francisco, Google held the second of what has now become an annual hardware event for the company, their Made by Google...
61 by Ryan Smith on 10/4/2017
Made By Google October 2017 Live Blog
We're here at the SFJAZZ Center for Google's second Made By Google press event. Last year saw the release of the Pixel XL smartphone, the Chromecast Ultra, Daydream, and...
27 by Ryan Smith on 10/4/2017
Google Assistant Released For NVIDIA's SHIELD TV; Other Vendors To Follow Shortly
Google has finally started to roll out its Google Assistant to its Android TV platform, where it is going to compete against Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri on respective...
7 by Anton Shilov on 10/2/2017
Hot Chips: Google TPU Performance Analysis Live Blog (3pm PT, 10pm UTC)
Another Hot Chips talk, now talking Google TPU.
30 by Ian Cutress on 8/22/2017
HTC Announces Snapdragon 835-Based VIVE VR Headset for Chinese Market
This morning at the ChinaJoy expo, HTC is announcing their first shipping VIVE standalone VR headset, specifically for the Chinese market. The aptly named VIVE Standalone is based on...
7 by Anton Shilov on 7/26/2017
ASUS Launches the 360º Chromebook Flip C213: 11.6-inch Apollo Lake, Starting $349
Back in January of this year, ASUS announced they were coming to market with a new Chromebook targeted specifically at education-focused customers. With Google focusing on Education in their...
21 by Joe Shields on 7/12/2017
Google Fined €2.42B by European Commission for Antitrust Violations
This morning Google has become a new record holder in the European Union; unfortunately however it’s not a good record to hold. Capping off a multi-year investigation, the European Commission...
29 by Ryan Smith on 6/27/2017
Google I/O 2017: Google Assistant Gets Smarter, Google Home Gets Free Calling & More
More and more people are using the phrase “Ok Google” to start a conversation to find information or perform actions using the Google Assistant. Launched last fall, the new...
17 by Matt Humrick on 5/18/2017
Google I/O 2017: New AR/VR Experiences
Today at its annual developer conference, Google made several announcements about what augmented and virtual reality projects it and its partners have been working on. Google just launched its...
18 by Matt Humrick on 5/17/2017
The Google I/O 2017 Keynote Live Blog
Taking place today is Google's annual I/O developer conference. Starting things off as always is the keynote, where we should receive updates on several Google technologies, initiaitves, and other...
16 by Ryan Smith on 5/17/2017
Tag Heuer Connected Modular 45: Atom Z3400, Android Wear 2.0, Starts at $1650
Tag Heuer last week announced its new generation smartwatch, co-developed with Google and Intel. The new Connected Modular 45 timepiece uses an Intel SoC, runs Google’s Android Wear 2.0...
36 by Anton Shilov on 3/18/2017
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