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[Sarmad]

Google will probably evaluate whether to spin their own, or use Intel's facilities based on some rational basis.

But in the case of facebook, maybe there is more emotion in the decision.

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At the time Facebook was asked if it was planning a broad shift to non-x86 chips for production workloads. "It's not a question of if; it's a question of when," said Facebook system engineer Amir Michael.



... Facebook technology strategist and former AMD chap Vijay Rao said at the Linaro Connect Conference at the end of October


http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2013/12/13/facebook_arm_chips/