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Microsoft debuts custom chips to boost data center security and power efficiency
At the Ignite developer conference today, Microsoft unveiled two new chips designed for its data center infrastructure: the Azure Integrated HSM and the Azure Boost DPU.
Scheduled for release in the coming months, these custom-designed chips aim to address security and efficiency gaps faced in existing data centers, further optimizing their servers for large-scale AI workloads. Unlike traditional HSM architectures that require network round-trips or key extraction, the chip performs encryption, decryption, signing, and verification operations entirely within its dedicated hardware boundary. It works with a sophisticated hardware-software co-design, where a custom, lightweight data-flow operating system enables higher performance, lower power consumption and enhanced efficiency compared to traditional implementations.
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