On Tuesday, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) Corp and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Inc’s Google Cloud said they have launched a chip that can make data centres more secure and efficient.

Google’s vice president of engineering, Amin Vahdat, said that the E2000 chip, code named Mount Evans, will be packaging data for networking from the expensive central processing units (CPU) that do the main computing. It also provides better security between different customers that may be sharing CPUs in the cloud.

Chips consist of basic processors called cores. There can be hundreds of cores on a chip, and sometimes information can bleed between them. The E2000 chip creates secure routes to each core to prevent such a scenario.

Companies are running increasingly complex algorithms, using progressively bigger data sets, at a time when the performance improvement of chips like CPUs is slowing down. Cloud companies are therefore looking for ways to make the data centre itself more productive.

He further said that Google Cloud is starting to offer the E2000 in a new product called C3 VM, which will be powered by Intel’s fourth-generation Xeon processors. Xeon chips are Intel’s most powerful CPUs, and Google Cloud is the first cloud service to deploy the latest generation of those chips, Intel said.