Google announces AMD-powered Tau virtual machines for Cloud: Everything to know

Google Cloud: Tech giant Google has announced a new family of virtual machines called Tau, for which it would make use of chips provided by AMD. The search engine giant said that the system would contain the 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors. The system would offer x86 compatibility, Google added, and give price-performance a boost of 42% over standard virtual machines or VMs. The company has said that with this system, the Tau VMs would be a significant advancement over the current virtual machines.