Google to Have Its Own Custom Chip— New SoC Design to Have Multiple Functions

Google is planning to have its own custom chip, claiming that this hardware could be the new motherboard. Amin Vahdat, Google's vice president, said that the SoC or Systems-on-Chip could be the new motherboard.

"To gain higher performance and to use less power, our workloads demand even deeper integration into the underlying hardware," said Vahdat via his official Google Cloud blog post.

"Instead of integrating components on a motherboard where they are separated by inches of wires, we are turning to SoC designs where multiple functions sit on the same chip," added the Google expert.

Google's upcoming SoC design

According to ZDNet's latest report, Google explained that the SoC needs less power and budget compared to the ASICs on a motherboard.

The tech giant firm added that custom SoC chips are just like a motherboard since it has individual functional units. These include TPUs, CPUs, compression, remote communication, secure data summarization, encryption, video transcoding, and more.

On the other hand, SoC designs also come from different sources.

Meanwhile, Vahdat confirmed that Uri Frank, an Intel veteran expert, will join Google's new SoC project as Google's vice president of engineering.

Once Frank is in the team, he will work on the server chip design. This just shows that Google is ready to make new efforts in the competition of creating new efficient chips. Vahdat said that a new and efficient SoC is possible since the cloud computing giant has designed and built some of the most efficient and largest computing systems.

What to expect from Google's new SoC

Google's vice president explained that the tech firm would not integrate components on a motherboard where the parts are inches apart. Instead, the company will transfer to creating SoC designs that have multiple functions on one chip.

Vahdat also added that the new SoCs would allow for even more customized chips, which have the ability to specialize for individual applications. If you want to know more details, just click this link.

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Written by: Giuliano de Leon