Google has announced a new Axion chip, the company's first on the Arm architecture, designed specifically for its cloud services and data centers.
Google said in a post on its official blog that the Axion chip is the latest in a series of efforts made by the company to develop its own chips.
Google began its chip design journey in 2016 by introducing its first-generation Tensor chip, also designed for the company's data centers. As we all know, Google's Pixel smartphones use a processor developed by the company as well. Google calls it a Tensor, a type of SoC that contains all the components needed to power a phone. Since the launch of the Pixel 6 in 2021, companies have always relied on it.
According to Google, the new Axion chip leverages Arm's Neoverse V2 platform and provides a performance improvement of up to 30% compared to previous processors designed for data centers using the Arm architecture, and a performance increase of up to 50% compared to current chips based on this architecture. x86.
Google already uses the latest generation of servers based on Arm architecture chips in its data centers to run many of its services, including Google Earth and its YouTube advertising platform. The company said it will soon move these and other services to servers based on Axion chips.
Servers built on the Axion chips will be available to Google Cloud customers later this year. Companies can apply to test virtual devices using the Axion chip, which Google plans to launch in the coming months.