Google Cloud Next 2024 has begun, and the company is starting the event with some big announcements, including its new Axion processor. It’s Google’s first Arm-based CPU specifically created for data centers, which was designed using Arm’s Neoverse V2 CPU.
According to Google, Axion performs 30 percent better than its fastest general purpose Arm-based tools in the cloud and 50 percent better than the most recent, comparable x86-based VMs. They also claim it’s 60 percent more energy efficient than those same x86-based VMs. Google is already using Axion in services like BigTable and
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