The Cobalt 100 CPU follows and perhaps replaces for all practical purposes the Ampere Arm CPU in Azure. It brings 128 Neoverse N2 cores on Armv9 and 12 channels of DDR5. Arm Neoverse N2 delivers ...

“Azure Maia was specifically designed for AI and for achieving the absolute maximum utilization of the hardware,” he said. Meanwhile, the Cobalt 100 CPU is built on Arm architecture, a type of ...

The new Azure Cobalt 100 CPU and Maia 100 AI Accelerator chips are key to this initiative. These chips will be installed in Microsoft data centers to power the company's AI services like Copilot ...

In addition, the company introduced its first microprocessor built in-house for cloud computing, the Azure Cobalt 100. Like Maia, the processor is the first in a planned series of microprocessors.

Microsoft’s Azure Maia AI chip and Arm-powered Azure Cobalt CPU are arriving in 2024, on the back of a surge in demand this year for Nvidia’s H100 GPUs that are widely used to train and ...

Microsoft (MSFT) is debuting its first AI chip. At its Ignite conference Wednesday, the company said the chip, called the Maia 100, is the first in its planned Azure Maia AI accelerator series. In ...

Microsoft has announced two in-house designed semiconductors - an Arm CPU and a dedicated AI accelerator. The Microsoft Azure Cobalt CPU is designed for general workloads, with a focus on performance ...

The company plans to use the new Maia 100 AI Accelerator to power some of Microsoft Azure's biggest internal AI workloads. Microsoft claims both the accelerator and Azure Cobalt CPU will improve ...

Microsoft (MSFT) is debuting its first AI chip. At its Ignite conference Wednesday, the company said the chip, called the Maia 100, is the first in its planned Azure Maia AI accelerator series. In ...