The new chip, which is called Mount Evans and will be sold to others beyond Google, reflects the way that cloud computing providers operate. Intel Corp and Alphabet Inc's Google Cloud on Wednesday said they have worked together to create a new category of chip that Intel hopes will become a major seller in the booming cloud computing market. The new chip, which is called Mount Evans and will be sold to others beyond Google, reflects the way that cloud computing providers operate. Also Read | EU tech rules should curb cloud computing providers, study saysFor cloud providers, tasks like setting up the virtual machines and getting customer data to the right place are essentially overhead costs. The Mount Evans chip, which Google and Intel have dubbed an "infrastructure processing unit" (IPU), separates those tasks out from the main computing tasks and speeds them up.

Source: The Hindu October 28, 2021 17:14 UTC