Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip

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Subject	Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip
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Date	2013-12-14 21:18 +0000

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Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip
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http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/12/google-inc-goog-considers-face-off-with-intel-corporation-intc/

Typically Intel chips waste 90% of the power that goes into
a data center as heat. And Google is fed up and wants an
alternative for the millions of servers that it has.
What better than purchase an ARM license and build
your own ARM server chips? :)
It will be possible to expand the data centers to tens of millions of servers
and still clock in with less wasted energy.

The biggest speed restriction is the DDR cycle time that limits CPU
to about 10MHz operating speed. No matter whose chips are used.
So may as well go for the more energy efficient ARM chips.

Google could use this opportunity to break into the hardware business
to power its tablets and netbooks by making the chip with
one single header file that names every register and every bit field
and then selling the chip and the header file to the Linux and open
source community. Every single open sourced project is likely to switch to using
the Google ARM chip within days. If google then brought out a second
chip, it would take hours to days to change that one single header
file and get all the previous work up and running on the new ARM chip again.

If google played their cards right, they will own the entire ARM server
market, tablet market, and Linux ARM chip based market.
With that power, they can squeeze out the patent trolls like appile
and microshaft by denying them any further markets because it will
all be taken up by cheap Linux gadgets and open source projects
that complete for attention at every niche at every level of competition.

In fact any open source project can make their own SoC with single
header file and storm the entire market. It does not have to be google.
It could be Ubuntu, or Mint, or one of the numerous other distro makers.
All they need is about USD 2 million in the bank, with a bit crown funding
perhaps, and never have to look back after taking their first orders.

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Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2013-12-14 21:18 +0000
  Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-14 22:52 +0000
    Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2013-12-14 23:38 +0000
      Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2013-12-14 18:16 -0600
      Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-15 22:47 +0000
        Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-12-16 00:45 +0000
          Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-16 02:08 +0000
            Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-12-16 03:30 +0000
          Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2013-12-16 08:38 +0000
            Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-16 15:16 +0000
          Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2013-12-16 08:38 +0000
          Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2013-12-16 08:38 +0000
          Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2013-12-16 08:38 +0000
            Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-12-16 17:51 +0000
              Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2013-12-16 21:56 +0000
                Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-12-17 00:10 +0000
                Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2013-12-17 03:30 +0000
                Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-12-17 03:48 +0000
                Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2013-12-17 18:44 +0000
                Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-12-17 19:42 +0000
                Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com> - 2013-12-17 12:23 -0800
                Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-12-18 00:19 +0000
                Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-12-18 00:34 +0000
                Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2013-12-18 11:06 +0100
                Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu> - 2013-12-18 16:18 +0000
                Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2013-12-18 19:19 +0000
                Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2013-12-19 10:05 +0100
                Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2013-12-19 20:45 +0000
                Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2013-12-20 09:40 +0100
                Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2013-12-20 20:55 +0000
                Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2013-12-19 09:54 +0100
                Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-12-17 19:40 +0000
    Re: Google set to make its own energy efficient ARM Server chip Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2013-12-14 18:15 -0600

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