Google’s Arm-based Axion data center processors in detail [Video]

The “data-first company” buzzword is mainstream today, but back when it wasn’t, Google LLC had already embraced the ideology. Now, drawing from years of combined hardware and software experience handling swathes of data, Axion processors have been engineered by Google to bring cutting-edge artificial intelligence capabilities to the data center.

“Google has a rich history of custom silicon and systems development for specific workloads,” said Mark Lohmeyer (pictured, right), vice president and general manager of compute and machine learning infrastructure at Google Cloud. “Five generations of TPUs, three generations of video coding units and multiple generations of processors that go into Pixel phones. We were excited to apply that engineering prowess to, in many ways, a bigger space and a bigger problem, which is general-purpose data center computing.”

Lohmeyer and Mohamed Awad (left), general manager and senior vice president of the Infrastructure Line of Business at Arm Holdings PLC, spoke with theCUBE Research analysts John Furrier…