This is a significant turnaround, because top infrastructure people including Urs had been saying that arm cores would never be sufficient for single-threaded p

This is a significant turnaround, because top infrastructure people including Urs had been saying that arm cores would never be sufficient for single-threaded performance[1] and most recently we thought they were supporting OpenPower as competition to intel.[2] > Google, which purchases as many as 300,000 processors every quarter for servers it manufactures, has greater buying power than most. Good lord! [1] http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/mi/2010/04/mmi2010040020-abs.html http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/mi/2010/04/mmi2010040020-a... [2] http://www.nextplatform.com/2015/03/18/google-looks-ahead-to-openpower-systems/ http://www.nextplatform.com/2015/03/18/google-looks-ahead-to... Background, great book "The Datacenter as a Computer": http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00516ED2V01Y201306CAC024 http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00516ED2V01Y2...