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Re:Microsoft Pledges to Use ARM Server Chips, Threatening In... by Jabbles on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @04:30PM (#13823990)
Perhaps spurred by Google's recent announcement that they have Skylake chips in their cloud: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/Google-Cloud-Pl...
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Re:Microsoft Pledges to Use ARM Server Chips, Threatening In... by faragon on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @07:07PM (#13825255)
Sure. And also, may be the Google-Inte Skylake comes from past year, when Google was testing POWER9 chips... [1]

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/07/open_power_summit_p...

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Re:Microsoft Pledges to Use ARM Server Chips, Threatening In... by amboar on Thursday March 09, 2017 @09:23AM (#13829410)
There's more recent news on that front: https://blog.rackspace.com/the-latest-zaius-barreleye-g2-ope...
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