INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Intel Corp (INTC.O) and Alphabet Inc&s (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud on Tuesday said they have launched a co-designed chip that can make data
centers more secure and efficient, Reuters reported.The E2000 chip, code named Mount Evans, takes over the work of packaging data for
networking from the expensive central processing units (CPU) that do the main computing
It also offers better security between different customers that may be sharing CPUs in the cloud, explained Google&s vice president of
engineering, Amin Vahdat.Chips are made up of basic processors called cores
There can be hundreds of cores on a chip and sometimes information can bleed between them
The E2000 creates secure routes to each core to prevent such a scenario.Companies are running increasingly complex algorithms, using
progressively bigger data sets, at a time when the performance improvement of chips like CPUs is slowing down
Cloud companies are therefore looking for ways to make the data center itself more productive.While the new chip was co-developed with
Google, Nick McKeown, who leads Intel&s Network and Edge group, said Intel can sell the E2000 to other customers.We do consider ourselves to
be the open cloud, and to the extent that others take advantage of the capabilities here, we&re thrilled,& said Vahdat.Google Cloud is
starting to offer the E2000 in a new product called C3 VM which will be powered by Intel&s fourth-generation Xeon processors, said Vahdat
Xeon chips are Intel&s most powerful CPUs and Google Cloud is the first cloud service to deploy the latest generation of those chips, Intel
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