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Microsoft to launch new custom chips for data processing, security
Microsoft's announcing chips to power workloads on Azure, including a hardware accelerator to offload and manage data processing tasks.
Microsoft on Tuesday revealed new custom chips aimed at powering workloads on its Azure cloud and bolstering security, particularly a new hardware accelerator that can manage data processing, networking and storage-related tasks. The Azure Boost DPU is Microsoft’s first data processing unit, designed for “data-centric workloads with high efficiency and low power,” the company said. The efficiency gains DPUs could deliver are attractive to hyperscalers, which, driven by the demand for AI to expand their cloud infrastructure, are building ever larger and more power-hungry data centers.
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