Intel and Alphabet Google Cloud said Tuesday they have launched a co-designed chip that can make data centers safer and more efficient. The E2000 chip codenamed Mount Evans took over the work of packing data for network cards from an expensive central processor (CPU). These tasks were originally calculated by central processor . The chip
also provides better security among different customers who may share CPU in the cloud, said Amin Vahdat, vice president of engineering at Google. The
E2000 chip is composed of a basic processor called the kernel. There may be hundreds of cores on a chip, so sometimes information will be lost between them. For environments where network data transmission reliability requirements, E2000 creates secure routes for each core to prevent this from happening.
Enterprises and institutions around the world are running increasingly complex algorithms and growing data sets, while performance improvements in chips such as CPUs are slowing down. Therefore, cloud computing companies are looking for ways to make the data center itself more productive.
Although the new chip was developed in conjunction with Google, Nick McKeon, who leads Intel Networks and Edge Group, said Intel could also choose to sell E2000 to other customers.
Google Cloud is about to start offering E2000 in a new product called C3 VM, which will be powered by Intel's fourth-generation Xeon processor. Intel said that the Xeon chip is Intel's most powerful CPU at present, and Google Cloud is the first cloud service to deploy the latest generation of these chips.
