Microsoft started its annual Ignite event by announcing two silicon products to be implemented in its cloud platform, Azure, and across some of its SaaS properties. The Azure Maia AI 100 accelerator ...

On Wednesday at the Microsoft Ignite conference, Microsoft announced two custom chips designed for accelerating in-house AI workloads through its Azure cloud computing service: Microsoft Azure Maia ...

Microsoft's push into AI-centric notebooks isn't great for gamers, as they can't play most of their games on the ARM-based chips inside the latest Copilot+ PCs. This is a problem that will be ...

Microsoft used Build 2026 to launch seven in-house MAI models, new Cobalt 200 silicon and the Majorana 2 quantum chip, a clear move to depend less on OpenAI.

Microsoft buys a lot of GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD. But moving forward, Redmond's leaders want to shift the majority of its AI workloads from GPUs to its own homegrown accelerators.… The software ...

It's long been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. With that in mind, Apple's silicon teams might soon receive the most lofty praise possible from one of their biggest ...

Microsoft is laying the groundwork for a hardware-accelerated Azure cloud with its own custom AI silicon, Arm server processors, virtualization offload, and more. The history of modern software ...