Google ARM Processor

Last week, Google announced their own custom ARM-based processor for general-purpose workloads. They promised up to 65% better price-performance and up to 60% better energy-efficiency.

Why is it interesting? Until now, only AWS offered a custom cost-optimized ARM processor - AWS Graviton. And now Google joined the competition. This shows that interest in ARM processors still grows and continue to grow in the future.

From engineering perspective, it's not possible just to switch workload from one architecture to another as images need to be pre-built for a specific architecture. One of the ways to test ARM nodes and migrate smoothly on the new architecture is by using multi-architecture images (I wrote about that here)

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