Google is gunning for faster hardware, whether or not you see it - Android

Google is pushing harder on silicon investment and scaling down from what it can do with motherboards to focusing on systems-on-chips. Leading that effort will be Uri Frank who joins the company after two decades of custom chip design engineering and as an executive at Intel.

It's not the first big name Google has snagged for core design: it hired chip architect Manu Galati away from Apple in 2017.

But this hire — Frank will be focused on server chip design — reflects the company's years-long tilt towards homegrown components from memory to network equipment to its headliner projects like processors for TensorFlow, a custom video processor unit, and OpenTitan for chip-based security.

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