Microsoft’s artificial intelligence processor will be announced next month?

Microsoft is paying special attention to artificial intelligence and apparently wants to unveil its own dedicated hardware for this technology. A new report claims that Microsoft will unveil its own artificial intelligence processor during the Ignite 2023 developer conference next month.

In a new report, Information website has mentioned the possibility of introducing 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 mentioned the introduction of several new products centered on its artificial intelligence 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 currently uses Nvidia’s H100 graphics processors for data centers responsible for processing artificial intelligence services such as Bing Chat or Bing Image Creator.

Microsoft and many companies active in the field of artificial intelligence have bought a lot of GPUs from Nvidia in the last year or two. This greatly increased Nvidia’s revenue and turned it into a trillion dollar company. But it seems that Microsoft does not want to be dependent 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 development of Microsoft’s proprietary artificial intelligence 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 intelligence chips. The Redmonds were even said to be funding AMD to build their own AI chips.