Google Axion
Axion is Google's first custom Arm data center CPU, built on Neoverse V2, with up to 50% better performance and 60% better energy efficiency than comparable x86 instances. It runs Google services such as Bigtable, Spanner, BigQuery and YouTube Ads. Sources and verification dates.
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Source per value- Owner The company that specified the chip and runs it in its own cloud, data centers or products.
- Google 1
- Role What the owner says the chip is for: training, inference, both, or a general-purpose server CPU.
- Server CPU 1
- Precision note What the throughput figures mean: dense or sparse, which precision, per chip or per package, and any figure the owner states only in another unit.
- Arm Neoverse V2 cores; C4A VMs scale to 72 vCPUs (each a full core, no SMT) and C4A metal to 96 vCPUs. Google does not publish a per-chip core count. 2
- Status Announced: public roadmap without verified deployment. Sampling: first silicon or limited internal use. Preview: customers can request early access, without a GA claim. Deployed: stated production use or general availability. Discontinued: program stopped.
- Deployed 1
- Announced Year the owner first announced the chip publicly.
- 2,024 1
- Deployment scale The largest deployment the owner or a named report states: chip counts, clusters, gigawatts or regions.
- In production inside Google for Bigtable, Spanner, BigQuery and YouTube Ads (The Next Platform, Apr 2024) 3
- How to get it How an outside buyer can use the chip: a named cloud instance or service, a product, or 'Internal only'.
- Google Cloud C4A VMs and C4A metal 1
Not verified in the sources reviewed: design partner, partner basis, foundry, node, memory, cpu cores, power.
Sources
- Google Cloud Blog: Introducing Google Axion Processors, our new Arm-based CPUs accessed 2026-11-11
- Google Cloud: Arm VMs on Compute accessed 2026-11-11
- The Next Platform: Google joins the homegrown Arm server CPU club accessed 2026-11-11