US EditionCobalt 200: Microsoft’s Next-Gen Arm CPU Targets Lower TCO for Cloud Workloads
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In the race for silicon armament by cloud giants, Microsoft has just played a master card. After decades of dependence on Intel and AMD, the company confirms its vertical integration strategy with a chip designed to optimize its Azure infrastructure from A to Z.
Two years ago, Microsoft first unveiled its own Arm-based Azure Cobalt 100 processor. Today, the company officially unveiled the second-generation Azure Cobalt 200. Photo: Microsoft The new product is still based on the Arm architecture and is designed for cloud data center workloads. Azure Cobalt 200 performance has increased by 50% compared to the previous version, and the number of cores has increased by... The post: After analyzing 350,000 v…
Microsoft unveils Azure Cobalt 200 CPU, in-house chip targets higher performance and deeper integration — Arm-based chip is equipped with 132 cores and manufactured using TSMC's 3nm process - WorldNL Magazine
(Image credit: Microsoft) Microsoft has revealed its next major in-house server processor, the Azure Cobalt 200, a 132-core Arm-based CPU built on TSMC’s 3nm process and designed to raise the performance ceiling across Azure’s general-purpose compute tiers.Like the Cobalt 100 before it, the new processor is built around an Arm Neoverse platform. This generation, however, moves to Arm’s latest CSS V3 subsystem and combines two 66-core chiplets f…
Microsoft unveils Azure Cobalt 200 CPU, in-house chip targets higher performance and deeper integration — Arm-based chip is equipped with 132 cores and manufactured using TSMC's 3nm process
Microsoft has revealed its next major in-house server processor, the Azure Cobalt 200, a 132-core Arm-based CPU built on TSMC’s 3nm process.
Cobalt 200: Microsoft’s next-gen Arm CPU targets lower TCO for cloud workloads
Microsoft has unveiled the next generation of its Arm-based custom CPUs in the form of Cobalt 200 as part of its ongoing efforts to reduce dependency on x86-based instances and make its data centers more energy-efficient while offering better performance for cloud computing workloads. Microsoft has been using Cobalt chips to power its own services, such as Teams and Defender, and also offers them to enterprise customers through virtual machines.…
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