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You may have heard that Google is releasing Axion, its first special Arm-based CPU made just for data centers. At the Google Cloud Next user meeting in Las Vegas², this news was shared.
As a result of Google’s big investment in custom hardware, Axion is the most recent version of this work². It has the best speed and energy savings in its class, and Google Cloud users will be able to get it later this year².
The Axion CPUs blend Google’s knowledge of silicon with Arm’s best CPU cores². They provide instances that are up to 30% faster than the fastest Arm-based general-purpose instances that are currently offered in the cloud². They are also up to 50% faster and up to 60% more energy efficient than similar x86-based instances from the current generation².
Google has already started using new Arm-based servers³ to run services like BigTable, Spanner, BigQuery, Blobstore, Pub/Sub, Google Earth Engine, and the YouTube Ads engine. Soon², these services and more will be put in place and built up on Axion.
The Arm NeoverseTM V2 CPU² is used to build Axion. It makes a huge difference in how fast web and app servers, containerized apps, open-source databases, in-memory caches, data analytics engines, video processing, CPU-based AI training and inference, and other processes can do their jobs².
With the release of Axion, Google joins the competitive field of custom silicon. Amazon and Microsoft have already taken similar steps. Google says that because Axion is based on an open architecture, Google Cloud users will be able to move their current Arm processes to Google Cloud without making any changes².
Later this year², technical documents will be released. This will include information about testing and layout. As we wait for Google’s Axion to be made available to more people, it’s clear that AI will power the data centers of the future.
