Must be funny working at Google and knowing the inside scoop (watching people speculate). So, here is my wild speculation about a similar secret project. There was a talk given by Dick Sites (from Google) [1, 2], where he talks about performance monitoring across the Google fleet. Very technical and useful if you are into monitoring (highly recommend it). A large part of his talk is dedicated to issues and limitations with off-the-shelf CPUs. Given that AWS has custom chips (talked about at Invent a few years back), why wouldn&#x27;t Google solve this issue too, they have the talent and money.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pdl.cmu.edu&#x2F;SDI&#x2F;2015&#x2F;slides&#x2F;DatacenterComputers.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pdl.cmu.edu&#x2F;SDI&#x2F;2015&#x2F;slides&#x2F;DatacenterComputers.p...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;121396406" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;121396406</a>