元器件交易网讯  4月29日消息，据外媒报道，谷歌周一称，它针对服务器系统设计一款主板，使用的IBM的新款Power8芯片，它通常只用于IBM自身的硬件设计中。

　　谷歌和其它云计算公司几乎一直都依靠英特尔的X86处理器。

　　谷歌称其开发这款母板是为了使其软件适应基于Power8的机器。

　　谷歌硬件组高级主管Gordon MacKean说，“为了达到那个目的，我们不得不创建一款硬件。”

　　MacKean也称，OpenPower基金是IBM促成的一个多公司组织，目的是为其芯片技术建立更广泛的受众。这是在该组织和IBM周三的旧金山会议之后披露的。

　　他没有说谷歌是否真的部署了Power8技术，以及如何部署Power8技术来处理网络搜索或其它计算工作。

　　但硬件和软件的结合无疑表明，谷歌至少是认真考虑过使自己的一些工作摆脱英特尔的技术。

　　英特尔发言人Mark Miller上周称，对IBM所说的Power8性能已经优于英特尔芯片表示质疑。“也就是说，我们没有掉以轻心，没有站在原地不动。”

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　　外媒原文如下：

　　It’s no secret that IBM wants to move its technology into the kind of data centers that GoogleGOOGL -0.02% and other Web giants operate. Now comes evidence that Google is putting some serious work into that possibility.

　　The Internet search company on Monday said it has designed a motherboard for server systems that uses IBM’s new Power8 chip, which has typically only been found in hardware designed by IBM itself. Google and other cloud-style companies now almost universally rely on x86 chips, the kind long associated with IntelINTC +0.27%.

　　Google said it developed the board to help adapt its software to run on Power8-based machines.

　　“In order to do that we had to build a piece of hardware,” said Gordon MacKean, a senior director in Google’s hardware group at an IBM event in Las Vegas.

　　MacKean also chairs the OpenPower Foundation, a multi-company group that IBMhelped form in an effort to build a broader audience for its chip technology. The latest disclosures follow on the heels of others made by the group and IBM at an event in San Francisco Wednesday.

　　He did not say whether or how Google might actually deploy Power8 technology to handle Web searches or other computing chores. But the hardware and software efforts certainly suggest that the technology trend-setter is at least seriously considering shifting some of its work away from Intel’s technology.

　　Mark Miller, an Intel spokesman, said last week that it questions IBM’s claims that Power8 has performance advantages over Intel chips. “That said, we don’t take competition lightly and are not standing still,” he said.