Google has continued its recent spending spree with the acquisition of PeakStream, a start-up that helps businesses develop software for high-speed computer chips.The software writing tools that PeakStream sells are aimed at super fast multi-core processors, including graphics and gaming chips.
Financial details of the deal are unknown, after it was recently confirmed by the Wall Street Journal.
The move could now see Google use the high-speed chips in the web servers that powers its online sites and services.
Google runs thousands of servers and will be looking to maximise the potential of every one by adopting the technology.
"Multi-core programming is hard," David Wu, analyst with Global Crown Capital, told RedHerring.com. "It's new stuff," he added, suggesting there were not a lot of people out there providing technology in the same way as PeakStream.
PeakStream's platform could allow Google the necessary tools to support its large and complex collection of stored data.
Meanwhile, recent research by internet security expert McAfee has revealed that the security of Google's search results has improved.
The report showed that four per cent of search results from leading engines Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, AOL and Ask lead to "risky pages".
That represented an improvement of one per cent for the year, with cleaner sponsored search results from Google and Ask cited as one of the main reasons for the progress made.
AOL was revealed to be the safest search engine, although McAfee's definition of 'risky' was revealed to include sites that were not necessarily 'security threats'.
