IBM’s Power chips hit the big time at Google
Google and Rackspace are designing a server based on IBM’s upcoming Power9 processor, a sure sign that Intel is no longer the only game in town for cloud service providers.
The companies announced plans for the system, which they call Zaius, at IBM’sOpenPower Summit in Silicon Valley on Wednesday. It’s one of several new Power servers on show at the event.
They plan to submit the design to the Open Compute Project, meaning other companies will be able to use the design as well.
Google’s data centers have long relied on servers based on Intel x86 processors, but the search giant has lately been exploring systems based on Power as well as ARM-based processors.
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