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I think it is merely an effort to not give Intel the monopoly over Google's datacenters. Because otherwise, Google will not have any negotiating power regarding
by qihqi 11y ago
I think it is merely an effort to not give Intel the monopoly over Google's datacenters. Because otherwise, Google will not have any negotiating power regarding prices of the chips.
- pag 11y agoThis. I think a side-benefit is that it lets them evaluate alternatives to x86 on a larger scale, and that if anything, the effort will lead to more portable code.
- moonchrome 11y agoWouldn't it be cheaper to buy some AMD chips ? Are they that behind ?
- nine_k 11y agoI think power density and performance per watt are more important for Google than chip price. Power8 has greater density than Xeons with comparable Mips/W or Mflops/W.
- moonchrome 11y agoI'm not talking about chip price but the cost of migrating and maintaining systems for separate architectures.