Forget the GPad - is Google building a server chip?

[ableal]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/22/google_the_server_chip_designer/

[hga]

Would Google be interested in a 32/16 bit only platform like the ARM for servers?

[ableal → hga]

Good question. A search for "arm 64 bit" pops out announcements for ARM 64 bit devices from 2001 ;-)

[ableal]

Collects some interesting facts and estimates. Snippet:

It was recently estimated that Google runs 2 per cent of the world's servers [... 2005 data center ...] if you extrapolate, its total server count - server consolidation aside - is around 1,827,200. That figure is well above recent press estimates. And it may be low.