Re:Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
by shagie on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @12:17PM
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I wasn't intending to claim that Pluto is custom silicon but rather that Pluto is an example of Google looking for simplicity, more (compute) power, and less (electrical) power.
The next step in that set of goals for their data center would be custom silicon where merchant silicon doesn't provide the right combination.
"""Regularly upgrading network fabrics with the latest generation of commodity switch silicon allows us to deliver exponential growth in bandwidth capacity in a cost-effective manner."""
https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/pdf/papers/p183...