Microsoft announces custom AI chip that could compete with Nvidia
Publishing timestamp: 2023-11-15 12:21:51
Summary
Microsoft is introducing its first chip for artificial intelligence, called Maia 100, which could compete with Nvidia's AI graphics processing units. They are also introducing the Cobalt 100 Arm chip for general computing tasks, which could compete with Intel processors. These chips will be available on Microsoft's Azure cloud. Microsoft is testing the Maia 100 chip on various applications, including its Bing search engine's AI chatbot and the GPT-3.5-Turbo language model. The Cobalt processors have shown better performance than existing Arm-based chips on Azure. Microsoft is not planning to sell servers containing their chips like Nvidia or AMD.
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Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/15/microsoft-reveals-maia-ai-processor-and-cobalt-arm-based-chip.html