Intel Corp Gandeng Google Cloud Design Chips That Make Data Centers Safer And Efficiency

Intel Corp and Google Cloud launched a shared-designed chip. (photo: twitter @intel)

JAKARTA - Intel Corp and Google Cloud of Alphabet Inc on Tuesday, October 11 announced that they have launched a jointly designed chip that could make data centers more secure and efficient.

The E2000 chip, a code called Mount Evans, took over data packaging work for networks from expensive central processing units (CPUs) that made major computing. This chip also offers better security between different subscribers who may share CPUs in the cloud, said Google's vice president of engineering, Amin Vahdat, as quoted by Reuters.

The chip consists of a base processor called core. There may be hundreds of cores in a chip and sometimes information can bleed between them. The E2000 creates a safe route to each core to prevent such a scenario.

Companies run increasingly complex algorithms, using even larger datasets, at a time when chip performance enhancements such as CPUs slow down. Therefore, cloud companies are looking for ways to make the data center itself more productive.

While the newly developed chip is co-developed with Google, Nick McKewn, who leads Network and Edge Intel groups, said Intel can sell E2000 to other customers.

"We think of ourselves as open cloud, and as far as others take advantage of the capabilities here, we are happy," said Vahdat.

According to Vahdat, Google Cloud is starting to offer E2000 in a new product called C3 VM which will be powered by Intel's fourth-generation Xeon processor. The Xeon chip is Intel's most powerful CPU and Google Cloud is the first cloud service to use the latest generation of those chips.