Google this week became yet another major hyperscaler that has developed its own Arm-based processor for datacenters. The company claims its Axion CPU is faster than competing x86 and Arm-based offerings and plans to use it to run workloads that rely on general-purpose computing at its datacenters. Some of Google's services already run on Axion and the company intends to increase usage of its custom silicon to take advantage of additional performance at lower power.
Google asserts that its Axion processors deliver up to 50% greater performance and up to 60% higher energy efficiency compared to contemporary x86-based processors, though it does not disclose with which CPUs it compares its devices. Additionally, the company claims that Axion offers a 30% performance advantage over rival Arm-based CPUs designed for datacenters, but again it does not disclose the exact rival.
