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Explore Azure infrastructure from silicon to systems

See how Microsoft designs and optimizes Azure infrastructure across silicon, systems, networking, security, power, cooling, and datacenter operations to power cloud and AI workloads.
See the systems approach behind Azure infrastructure, from custom silicon to datacenter operations.
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What’s new in Azure silicon to systems

Explore the latest Azure infrastructure announcements, blogs, and stories across custom silicon, systems, networking, and datacenter innovation.
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  • Microsoft has the most scalable AI infrastructure, built for and with the world’s most sophisticated AI workloads.
  • From systems to silicon, Microsoft optimizes and innovates at every layer of the infrastructure stack to deliver performance, efficiency, and scalability.
  • Microsoft is building the next generation infrastructure sustainability and responsibly with the ecosystem and suppliers.
Infrastructure layers

Optimized at every layer of the infrastructure

Silicon

Custom processors and accelerators built to power the next generation of cloud and AI.

Servers

Purpose-built servers designed to maximize performance, efficiency, and reliability.

Networking

Networking engineered for low latency and high throughput across AI and cloud workloads.

Cooling

Cooling technologies engineered to support high-density AI infrastructure with greater efficiency.

Power

Power management designed to efficiently support the growing demands of cloud and AI.

Storage

Optimized storage infrastructure built to securely deliver data performance at hyperscale.
Custom silicon

Fit-for-purpose silicon for Azure infrastructure

Microsoft designs specialized silicon optimized for Azure infrastructure for modern cloud and AI workloads.
Microsoft Azure Maia 200 chip.
AI accelerator

Azure Maia

Our AI accelerator built for inference on Azure AI infrastructure.
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Microsoft Azure Cobalt 200 chip.
Cloud CPU

Azure Cobalt

Our cloud-native CPU designed for performance, efficiency, and scale.
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Security chip

Azure Integrated HSM

Built to help strengthen security and deliver cryptographic trust for the cloud.
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Microsoft Azure Boost DPU chip.
Data Processing Unit

Azure Boost DPU

Designed to enhance infrastructure efficiency for data centric workloads.
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Customer adoption

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  • Microsoft takes a systems approach to infrastructure innovation. Rather than optimizing individual technologies in isolation, Microsoft designs and operates Azure as an integrated platform, helping deliver the performance, efficiency, reliability, and scalability required for cloud and AI workloads.
  • Silicon to systems describes the layers Microsoft engineers and optimizes across Azure infrastructure. These layers span silicon, memory, storage, servers, networking, security, power, cooling, and datacenter operations, all working together as a unified infrastructure platform, to deliver better outcomes for customers.
  • By optimizing infrastructure as an integrated system, Azure can deliver the right balance of performance, efficiency, reliability, and security, helping customers innovate faster and scale cloud and AI workloads with confidence.
  • Azure infrastructure is built on a combination of Microsoft-designed innovations and technologies from industry-leading silicon providers, hardware partners, supply chain innovators, and open-source communities. This approach allows Microsoft to continuously incorporate advances from across the ecosystem while optimizing the entire stack in Azure infrastructure.
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