Microsoft’s custom Cobalt chips will come to Azure next week

Posted under: Emerging technologies
Date: 2024-05-17
Microsoft’s custom Cobalt chips will come to Azure next week

Microsoft will showcase its bespoke Cobalt 100 chips at the Build conference next week, touting 40% faster performance than standard ARM chips. The 128-core CPUs used by Adobe and Snowflake will compete with AWS's Graviton. Microsoft will also offer AMD's MI300X accelerators and disclose lower pricing for large language models. A new real-time intelligence system and Snowflake collaboration will be announced.

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