Google introduced Axion, its first custom Arm-based CPUs designed for the data center.
Built using the Arm Neoverse V2 CPU, Axion processors promise up to 30% better performance than the fastest general-purpose Arm-based instances currently available in the cloud , up to 50% better performance and up to 60% better energy-efficiency than comparable current-generation x86-based instances.
Axion is supported by Titanium, Google's specialized framework consisting of custom-designed silicon microcontrollers and scalable tiered offloading systems. These Titanium offloads handle essential platform functions such as networking and security, freeing up Axion processors to allocate more resources and boost performance for client tasks. Additionally, Titanium enhances system efficiency by redirecting storage input/output operations to Hyperdisk, Google's block storage service. Hyperdisk separates performance capabilities from the size of the instance and offers the flexibility of being provisioned dynamically in real-time.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-googles-new-arm-based-cpu
