Yeah, it's one of the benefits of being attached to "the rest of Google". As with Broadwell, Google was front and center in helping Intel qualify this part. The

Yeah, it's one of the benefits of being attached to "the rest of Google". As with Broadwell, Google was front and center in helping Intel qualify this part. The distinction is that with Skylake the lead time over general availability was even longer (see our announcement of this at Supercomputing in November). We still have some things on Skylake we're going to do beyond today's announcement, so today is really "Welcome!". Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud.