I'd imagine that if Google were to ever start deploying ARM servers, it could be a big boon. Amazon Web Services and Oracle Cloud already have ARM servers available, and Azure is supposedly working on their own ARM chips, wouldn't be that much of a stretch.
(Disc: I work for Google, but not in Cloud nor Pixel)
It doesn't need to be public facing servers. It could be also for internal uses such as the storage nodes or YouTube transcoding (which has custom decoding/encoding HW as well). I doubt they'd keep the Tensor subsystem for applications like those, though... Except perhaps for YT, where one day you could feed models with frames as they get converted.
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I'd imagine that if Google were to ever start deploying ARM servers, it could be a big boon. Amazon Web Services and Oracle Cloud already have ARM servers available, and Azure is supposedly working on their own ARM chips, wouldn't be that much of a stretch.
(Disc: I work for Google, but not in Cloud nor Pixel)
It doesn't need to be public facing servers. It could be also for internal uses such as the storage nodes or YouTube transcoding (which has custom decoding/encoding HW as well). I doubt they'd keep the Tensor subsystem for applications like those, though... Except perhaps for YT, where one day you could feed models with frames as they get converted.