Here's What IBM and Google Are Doing to Take on Intel

Technology giants IBM ibm, Google googl, and seven others have joined hands to launch an open specification that can boost datacenter server performance by up to ten times, to take on Intel intc . The new standard, called Open Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (OpenCAPI), is an open forum to provide a high bandwidth, low latency open interface design specification. The open interface will help corporate and cloud data centers to speed up big data, machine learning, analytics and other emerging workloads. The consortium plans to make the OpenCAPI specification available to the public before the end of the year and expects servers and related products based on the new standard in the second half of 2017, it said in a statement. Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, is known to protect its server technologies and has chosen to sit out of the new consortium.