Microsoft is paying special atteion to artificial ielligence and apparely was to unveil its own dedicated hardware for this technology. A new report claims that Microsoft will unveil its own artificial ielligence processor during the Ignite 2023 developer conference next moh.
In a new report, Information website has meioned the possibility of iroducing this chip. The Ignite conference for developers and people active in the field of IT will be held from November 14 to 17 (November 23 to 26) in Seattle. Microsoft has meioned the iroduction of several new products ceered on its artificial ielligence platform; Especially during the speech of the CEO of this company, Satya Nadella and other senior managers.
Is Microsoft’s AI processor on the way?
Microsoft currely uses Nvidia’s H100 graphics processors for data ceers responsible for processing artificial ielligence services such as Bing Chat or Bing Image Creator.
Microsoft and many companies active in the field of artificial ielligence have bought a lot of GPUs from Nvidia in the last year or two. This greatly increased Nvidia’s revenue and turned it io a trillion dollar company. But it seems that Microsoft does not wa to be depende on Nvidia, and for this reason, it makes dedicated processors; An issue that can reduce Nvidia’s revenues.
In April, a report was published about the developme of Microsoft’s proprietary artificial ielligence chips, codenamed Athena. This report claimed that Microsoft has been developing such a chip since 2019 and a team of 300 people is working on this chip.
In May, Bloomberg claimed in a report that Microsoft is in talks with AMD to make its own artificial ielligence chips. The Redmonds were even said to be funding AMD to build their own AI chips.
