Google was among the first hyperscalers build custom silicon for its services, starting first with tensor processing units (TPUs) for its AI initiatives, and then video transcoding units (VCUs) for the YouTube service. But unlike its industry peers, the company has been slower to adopt custom CPU designs, prefering to stick to off-the-shelf chips from the major CPUs. This is finally changing at Google, with the announcement that the company has developed its own in-house datacenter CPU, the Axion. Google's Axion processor is based on the Arm Neoverse V2 (Arm v9) platform, which is Arm's current-generation design for high-performance server CPUs, and is already employed in other chips such as NVIDIA's Grace and Amazon's Graviton4. Within Google, Axion is aimed at a wide variety of...
Hands On With the Nexus 5X and 6P
Today Google announced several new devices at their September 2015 launch event in San Francisco. By far the most anticipated devices were the two new Nexus phones that were...
116 by Brandon Chester on 9/29/2015
Microsoft Announces VP9 Support Is Coming To Edge
Today Microsoft announced that support for VP9 and the WebM container is in development for the Microsoft Edge browser that ships with Windows 10. Over the past couple of...
16 by Brandon Chester on 9/8/2015
Google Announces The OnHub WiFi Router
Today Google announced that they are moving into the WiFi router market. The new router is produced through a partnership with TP-Link and it's called OnHub. Google is marketing...
32 by Brandon Chester on 8/18/2015
Google Revamps Hangouts On The Web
As someone who uses Google Hangouts for both personal and work related correspondence, I've always been frustrated that the only viable options for using it are to install Chrome...
8 by Brandon Chester on 8/17/2015
Google Releases Final M Preview: Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Today Google released the third developer preview for the M release and at the same time also reveals its official codename as well as final version name: Android 6.0...
51 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/17/2015
Google Reorganizes Into Alphabet: Sundar Pichai is CEO of Google
Today, Google announced that they will undergo reorganization to better represent the growth that the company has seen in the past few years. As a result, Google the company...
34 by Joshua Ho on 8/10/2015
Google Redesigns Hangouts for Android With Version 4.0
Today Google shipped a major update to their Hangouts application for Android. Ever since Hangouts for iOS was updated to 4.0 a little over a month ago Android users...
37 by Brandon Chester on 8/10/2015
Google Commits To Monthly Security Updates For Nexus Devices
Security updates on mobile operating systems have typically been bundled inside larger patches that include other bug fixes and improvements. Unfortunately, the world of security exploits isn't tuned to...
41 by Brandon Chester on 8/5/2015
Google Updates Hangouts For iOS With A New Interface
Today Google shipped an update for their Hangouts application on iOS. The update brings the version number to 4.0, and rightfully so as it comes with a new design...
16 by Brandon Chester on 6/29/2015
Understanding Project Soli and Jacquard: Wearable Control Breakthroughs
Today at Google IO, Google’s Advanced Technologies and Products (ATAP) group went over some of the things that they’ve worked on in the year since the previous IO. There...
12 by Joshua Ho on 5/30/2015
Google Announces Project Brillo and Weave for IoT
As part of today's announcements at I/O 2015, Google announced a new operating system and API targeted at the Internet-of-Things (IoT) space. Starting off with the new OS, under the...
10 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/28/2015
Google Introduces Google Photos
Today during their I/O 2015 Keynote Google announced Google Photos, a new service that will allow users to easily upload, edit, and share photographs from all of their devices...
28 by Brandon Chester on 5/28/2015
Google Unveils Project Fi: A Network for the Nexus 6
Today Google officially announced their previously rumored entry into the world of wireless service. This new endeavor is known as Project Fi, and it's exclusive to owners of the...
45 by Brandon Chester on 4/22/2015
Google Updates Gmail for Android With A Unified Inbox
Today Google's Gmail team is shipping an update to Gmail for Android, which has now become the standard mail application for Android Lollipop users. The update brings a great...
22 by Brandon Chester on 3/30/2015
The Chromebook Pixel (2015) Review
Google's Chrome OS has always been similar to Microsoft Windows in how one company provides the operating system for many different manufacturers to use on their own devices. But...
123 by Brandon Chester on 3/16/2015
Google Launches The New Chromebook Pixel (2015)
Two years ago Google released the original Chromebook Pixel to the world. To this day it has remained the most premium and expensive Chromebook ever made, with specifications that...
78 by Brandon Chester on 3/11/2015
The Google Nexus 9 Review
For the past few years, we’ve seen Google place significant emphasis on price as a way of competing with other tablets on the market. The original Nexus 7 managed...
169 by Joshua Ho & Ryan Smith on 2/4/2015
Google Announces Support For 40 Third-Party App Cards In Google Now
Google Now has always been good at giving you relevant information about things like transit, emails, stocks, sport scores, etc. But everything it displays is linked to a Google...
19 by Brandon Chester on 1/30/2015
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