Moving Google toward the mainline

Re:Moving Google toward the mainline by H8crilA on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @10:36PM (#28768532)

Not CPUs but a lot of other components are completely custom, developed in-house. A well known example: TPUs. Google is one of the world's largest manufacturer of servers and other DC equipment, actually, it's just that none of that is for sale (though a lot is for rent :) ).

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Re:Moving Google toward the mainline by walrus01 on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @10:48PM (#28768605)

Unless they've been building any factories I don't know about, their contractors are the manufacturers. I'm talking about companies based in Taiwan like Quanta, Compal, Clevo, and others. If you've ever been to a Computex Taipei you have seen the booths of the actual manufacturers of Google's hardware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computex

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Re:Moving Google toward the mainline by drivebycomment on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @02:15AM (#28769788)

This is a meaningless nitpicking. It is like nitpicking Apple is not a manufacturer of hardware since the actual assembly happens under some contractor. For all intent and purpose, and even technically, Google is the largest manufacturer of data center-sized supercomputers.

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Re:Moving Google toward the mainline by skunkworker on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @01:41AM (#28769590)

Like when that Pluto Switch got leaked back in 2012

https://www.wired.com/2012/09/pluto-switch/

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Re:Moving Google toward the mainline by ars on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @01:01AM (#28769377)

See this for an early example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=542531

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