Episode

A year in, Google wants its Axion processors to feel like a scheduling decision

Podcast: The New Stack Podcast
Published: Apr 15, 2026
Duration seconds: 1338
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Summary

At KubeCon Europe, Google Cloud’s Jago Macleod and Abdel Sghiouar argued that adopting Arm for Kubernetes workloads has shifted from a complex migration to a practical, low-friction choice. After a year of production use, Google’s custom Arm-based Axion processors—powering C4A and N4A instances—are positioned as broadly viable for most containerized applications, offering strong gains in performance, cost efficiency, and energy usage compared to x86.