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Technology — Archive · Vol 308 Issue 3

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The Next Platform, Wednesday, November 15,2023

Microsoft Holds Chip Makers' Feet To The Fire With Homegrown CPU And AI Chips

Vol 308 · Issue 3 · 2023-11-15

After many years of rumors, Microsoft has finally confirmed that it is following rivals Amazon Web Services and Google into the design of custom processors and accelerators for their clouds. That confirmation came today as Satya Nadella, Microsoft's chief executive officer, announced the Cobalt 100 Arm server CPU and the Maia 100 AI accelerator chip.

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The Next Platform, Monday, November 13,2023

NVIDIA Pushes Hopper HBM Memory, And That Lifts GPU Performance

Vol 308 · Issue 3 · 2023-11-13

For very sound technical and economic reasons, processors of all kinds have been overprovisioned on compute and underprovisioned on memory bandwidth - and sometimes memory capacity depending on the device and depending on the workload - for decades.

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