Major technology companies had been experimenting with Intel alternatives even before the security flaws were revealed. Last March, Microsoft committed to using ARM processors for its Azure cloud service, and in December, Microsoft Azure deployed Advanced Micro Devices processors in its data centers. Alphabet Inc's Google said in 2016 that it was designing a server based on International Business Machines Corp's Power9 processor. And Amazon.com Inc's Amazon Web Services chose AMD graphics processing units for a graphics design service announced in September.
Google is designing a server based on a processor with numbers and letters in its name.