Microsoft has announced more details about their use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to accelerate servers in their massive datacenters. CEO Satya Nadella made the announcements at their ...

Microsoft is set to capitalize on its work on integrating field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) into servers for machine learning workloads, by launching a specialized Azure cloud service. Project ...

Microsoft's Project BrainWave-- its effort to use Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology to provide fast AI processing in Azure -- is now in preview in a couple of different forms. On May 7, ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

After three years of research into how it might accelerate its Bing search engine using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), Microsoft came up with a scheme that would let it lash Stratix V devices ...

Microsoft’s servers are now powered by optimized custom chips that joined together to translate the entirety of Wikipedia in literally less than a blink of an eye. In a demonstration at Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft’s embrace of programmable chips knowns as FPGAs is well documented. But in a paper released Monday the software and cloud company provided a look into how it has fundamentally changed the ...

A Microsoft Research team this week offered a glimpse of the datacenter future using programmable chips. The team built a fabric of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), or programmable chips, as a ...

Doug Burger called it Project Catapult. Burger works inside Microsoft Research--the group where the tech giant explores blue-sky ideas--and in November 2012, he pitched a radical new concept to Qi Lu, ...

This afternoon Microsoft announced Brainwave, an FPGA-based system for ultra-low latency deep learning in the cloud. Early benchmarking indicates that when using Intel Stratix 10 FPGAs, Brainwave can ...