Microsoft unveiled its first two custom chips, the Azure Maia 100 and Cobalt 100. The former was designed to run cloud-based training and inferencing for AI workloads like OpenAI models, Bing, GitHub Copilot, as well as ChatGPT. It’s the first generation in the series with 105 billion transistors fabricated on 5nm process technology.
Azure Cobalt 100 is Microsoft’s first custom in-house central processing unit series, built on Arm architecture for optimal performance or watt efficiency, powering common cloud workloads for the Microsoft Cloud. Cobalt 100 is the first generation in the series and a 64-bit 128-core chip that delivers up to 40 percent performance improvement over current generations of Azure Arm chips.
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Networking innovation runs across our first-generation Maia 100 and Cobalt 100 chips. From hollow core fiber technology to the general availability of Azure Boost, we’re enabling faster networking and storage solutions in the cloud. You can now achieve up to 12.5 GBs throughput, 650K input output operations per second (IOPs) in remote storage performance to run data-intensive workloads, and up to 200 GBs in networking bandwidth for network-intensive workloads,” said Omar Khan General Manager, Azure Product Marketing.
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