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Not CPUs but a lot of other components are completely custom, developed in-house. A well known example: TPUs. Google is one of the world's largest manufacturer
by H8crilA 5y ago
Not CPUs but a lot of other components are completely custom, developed in-house. A well known example: TPUs. Google is one of the world's largest manufacturer of servers and other DC equipment, actually, it's just that none of that is for sale (though a lot is for rent :) ).
- walrus01 5y agoUnless they've been building any factories I don't know about, their contractors are the manufacturers. I'm talking about companies based in Taiwan like Quanta, Compal, Clevo, and others. If you've ever been to a Computex Taipei you have seen the booths of the actual manufacturers of Google's hardware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computex
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- drivebycomment 5y agoThis is a meaningless nitpicking. It is like nitpicking Apple is not a manufacturer of hardware since the actual assembly happens under some contractor. For all intent and purpose, and even technically, Google is the largest manufacturer of data center-sized supercomputers.
- ars 5y agoSee this for an early example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=542531 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=542531
- skunkworker 5y agoLike when that Pluto Switch got leaked back in 2012 https://www.wired.com/2012/09/pluto-switch/ https://www.wired.com/2012/09/pluto-switch/