The Google Axion chipset is here after a while of waiting and it’s a custom ARM-based chipset. This new product from Google can deliver impressive improvement in raw performance, which is rather impressive. Google showed off this new chip at the Cloud Next 2024 event, and they got heads turning because of the details of this new chipset.
If you’re a Pixel fan, learning of this new chipset, you might feel that it’ll be in use in coming Google Pixel devices. Well, this new chipset won’t find its way to new Pixel products, as it is for use in datacentres. This new chip is a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) v5p product that packs a punch in its field.
Some areas where Google ensured that this new chipset outperforms the competition are power efficiency and performance. In the area of power efficiency, the new Google Axion chipset consumes 60% less power than the competition that is currently in use in datacentres across the world. According to Google, this new ARM-based chipset is also 50% more powerful than the competition that is currently in use.
To ensure that it hit these figures, Google designed the new Axion with 8960 chips. With this amount of chips, the Axion will run hot, but Google solved that issue by adding liquid cooling to the entire system. Due to this build, the new Google Axion can deliver up to 30% performance improvement in comparison with the existing ARM-based SoCs running in cloud-based services.
At this moment, we are yet to see the public usage of the new Google Axion chipset. However, our sources confirm that this chipset is currently in use at Google and will hit the public this year. Once it hits the public for use in non-Google datacenters we’ll see the performance of this new chipset in comparison with existing entries.