Certain chips may be better suited for search

Researchers at Harvard and Microsoft led by Vijay Janapa Reddi, a graduate student in computer science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), authored a paper that seeks to prove that a small, power-efficient core like the Intel Atom chip can be better suited for search, a conclusion that might help explain Google's recent acquisition of the Agnilux chip house.

There's one catch: The ideal chip is not one of the Atom chips Intel ships, but a hypothetical, multicore Atom chip that Intel could build, but has not publicly announced. The current Atom designs don't provide the proper resources to the search engine. The result? Degraded search results, a big no-no.

The paper has been accepted for presentation at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture in Saint-Malo, France, on June 19, where it will be publicly presented. 

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