Intel will produce its own custom chips for cloud providers next year, reports the New York Times.
The reason is simple: Intel can easily change chip designs and leave out unwanted core features or alter other properties, such as to gain compute and power optimization for public cloud servers. It’s a matter of a few commands to the production systems to get custom chips.[ From Amazon to Windows Azure, InfoWorld puts IaaS clouds to the test to find out which is best for you. | Stay up on cloud developments with InfoWorld's Cloud Computing newsletter. ]
The public cloud providers are willing to pay for custom chips if they can save power during operations or get better performance when processing common workloads. Indeed, since 2012, Intel has had an internal “Just Say Yes” program dedicated to looking for workloads that require custom chips.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here