Google Taps IBM, Rackspace to Dent Intel's Hold on Server Chips
- Web giant has software to switch to IBM, ARM-based servers
- Company to give away server design built with Rackspace
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Google has technology to easily switch away from Intel Corp. server chips and is helping other companies do the same, a potentially worrying development for the dominant provider of processors that power data centers.
Google, the main division of Alphabet Inc., said Wednesday it has built software that lets it use OpenPower chips from International Business Machine Corp. to run some of the computer servers in its many massive data centers.