Saurabh Dighe posts

Corporate Vice President, Systems Planning and Architecture

Saurabh leads Azure Cloud and AI hardware systems and architecture, driving platform and silicon roadmaps including Cobalt and Maia. A semiconductor veteran, he shapes Azure hardware strategy and silicon investments, serves on the Open Compute Project board, spent 15 years at Intel, and holds degrees from the University of Mumbai and University of Minnesota.

April 30 3 min read

Enforcing trust and transparency: Open-sourcing the Azure Integrated HSM

As cloud workloads become more agentic and AI systems handle increasingly sensitive data, trust must be engineered directly into infrastructure.
October 13, 2025 7 min read

Accelerating open-source infrastructure development for frontier AI at scale

Microsoft is contributing new standards across power, cooling, sustainability, security, networking, and fleet resiliency to advance innovation.
October 15, 2024 5 min read

Accelerating industry-wide innovations in datacenter infrastructure and security

Microsoft drives innovation and contributes to the broader AI and datacenter community, benefitting the entire industry.

Enforcing trust and transparency: Open-sourcing the Azure Integrated HSM

Accelerating open-source infrastructure development for frontier AI at scale

Accelerating industry-wide innovations in datacenter infrastructure and security