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Re:Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker by tb on Friday April 04, 2008 @08:20PM (#155373)
Nope, far from it, they're using the most commodity hardware infrastructure they can find. Their whole system is built around cheap, widely-available hardware. Even with the volumes they are using, they would not get production high enough to compete with the commodity PC market on price.
Re:Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker by tfinniga on Friday April 04, 2008 @11:56PM (#155494)
They are trying to get more efficient power supplies.. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/26/2039213
Re:Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker by henning on Friday April 04, 2008 @08:58PM (#155398)
I guess it wasn't obvious that I wasn't really seriously waiting for Google to start slinging wafers.