[“\nTechCrunch recently reported that Microsoft (MS) is planning to unveil its self-developed ‘Cobalt 100’ chip at the ‘MS Build 2024’ conference scheduled for the 21st (local time).”,
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, “The central processing unit (CPU) ‘Cobalt 100’ is Microsoft’s first self-developed chip, along with the AI chip ‘Maia 100’, which was announced at ‘MS Ignite 2023’ last November. ‘Cobalt 100’ is designed based on Arm architecture, similar to Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s ‘Graviton’ chip, as a low-power CPU with 64-bit 128 cores optimized for Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.”,
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, “Data centers necessary for cloud services are called ‘electricity-eating hippos’ and are a major target for carbon emissions management in ESG (environmental, social, and governance) practices. Furthermore, the global trend of generative AI is rapidly accelerating power consumption.”,
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, “As a result, hyperscalers are actively developing low-power semiconductors and attracting customers to instances based on them. AWS, a leader in the cloud market, has been releasing Arm-based CPUs since 2018, and announced its 4th generation at ‘AWS Reinvent 2023’ last December. Google also unveiled its first Arm-based CPU ‘Axion’ at ‘Google Next 2024’ event in April.”,
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, ‘According to TechCrunch, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s head of Cloud and AI, claimed during an analyst briefing that the performance of their Cobalt chip is 40% better than AWS Graviton chip. He added that companies like Adobe and Snowflake have already started using this new chip.’,
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, ‘TechCrunch also reported that Microsoft will introduce support for AMD MI300X accelerator for Azure cloud at this event. Guthrie said, “It is currently the most cost-effective GPU (graphics processing unit) for Azure OpenAI services.”‘,
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MS Azure Cobalt 100. Provided by MS]