We are excited to announce the general availability of the new Azure Cobalt 100 Virtual Machines (VMs). These VMs run on Microsoft’s first fully custom Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU and represent a significant milestone in our end-to-end approach to building cloud infrastructure.
Microsoft drives innovation and contributes to the broader AI and datacenter community, benefitting the entire industry.
Fueling groundbreaking innovations, Azure AI infrastructure comprises of technology from NVIDIA, AMD, and our own AI accelerator, as we announced last November.
At NVIDIA GTC, Microsoft and NVIDIA are announcing new offerings across a breadth of solution areas from leading AI infrastructure to new platform integrations, and industry breakthroughs.
At this year’s OCP Global Summit, Microsoft will share our latest contributions to supercomputing architecture and hardware intended to support the new era through standardization and innovation.
Microsoft has made a number of contributions to and collaborated with various members of the Open Compute Project (OCP) community, the leading industry group dedicated to open source hardware innovation.
Here at Microsoft, we’ve empowered our long-standing partners in the semiconductor industry to embrace Azure’s cloud infrastructure and scale out electronic design automation (EDA).
To deliver the most sustainable, scalable, and reliable cloud for Azure customers, continued innovation in cloud hardware is a constant priority for Microsoft.
Leading hardware engineering at “the” software company is not as strange as it sounds, as the Microsoft Cloud depends on hardware as the foundation of trust, reliability, capacity, and performance, to make it possible for Microsoft and our customers to achieve more.
Right now, every industry and every customer is going through a massive transformation, and cloud computing is often a central enabler of this.
