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Intel and Google Cloud partner to create a new category of data centre chip

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Intel and Google Cloud announced that they have worked together to create a new category of chip that Intel hopes will become a major seller in the cloud computing market.

The new chip, which is called Mount Evans and will be sold to others beyond Google, reflects the way that cloud computing providers operate. They build huge data centres full of powerful physical computers and sell virtual slices of those machines to other businesses, who in turn get better bang for the buck than building the machines themselves.

For cloud providers, tasks like setting up the virtual machines and getting customer data to the right place are essentially overhead costs. The Mount Evans chip, which Google and Intel have dubbed an “infrastructure processing unit” (IPU), separates those tasks out from the main computing tasks and speeds them up. Doing so also helps ensure the safety of those functions against hackers and adds flexibility to the data centre, a Reuters report added.

“We see this as strategically vital. It’s an extremely important area for us and for the data centre,” said Nick McKeown, senior vice president of the network and edge group at Intel.

Intel and Google are working together on a set of software tools that will be released for free in hopes of making Intel’s version of the chip a broader industry standard used beyond Google’s data centres.

Amin Vahdat, a Google fellow and vice president of engineering, said Google is hoping to spur a technology trend that makes it easier for all data centre operators to be more flexible about how they slice up their physical computer servers into virtual ones to suit whatever computing task is at hand.

“The basic question of what is a server is going to go beyond what’s inside the sheet metal. The IPU is going to play a central role there,” Vahdat told Reuters.

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  • October 28, 2021
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