Google Acquires Multicore Programming Company, PeakStream

Jun 6, 2007 at 8:32am ET by Barry Schwartz

Google shivs server crowd with PeakStream buy from The Register reports Google has purchased PeakStream, a start-up that sells tools for programming chips with multiple processing units.

The financial terms of the buyout were not disclosed, but rumors are that Google bought them on the cheap. Reportedly, PeakStream was not doing well financially and Google wanted to ensure the company’s stability – so they bought them. PeakStream develops tools that help improve the performance of single-threaded applications on multi-core chips. Google has an interest in improving such tools, to help with their own servers.

“We believe the PeakStream team’s broad technical expertise can help build products and features that will benefit our users,” Google said in a statement. “We look forward to providing them with additional resources as they continue developing high performance applications for modern multi-core systems.”

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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