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The first two custom silicon chips designed by Microsoft for its cloud

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Re: The first two custom silicon chips designed by Microsoft for its cloud

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Damn, Microsoft is playing all sides of this, huh. Within a ten minute window: - Satya announced GPT-4 runs (at least partly) on a new AMD offering - Satya announced an in-house chip for ML acceleration - Satya brings NVidia CEO Jensen Huang on stage they've got every horse in the race, huh (disclaimer, I work for MS but all the stuff talked about here far is waaaay above my paygrade haha, and all brand new info to m…

And that’s why we call them “tech giants”!

Re: The first two custom silicon chips designed by Microsoft for its cloud

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>are now coming round to Arm because it really does make a better product i.e battery life and thermals. ISA doesn't imply performance characteristics. It's like saying that programming language (syntax) has performance implication. No, it doesn't. Everything is up to the compiler, runtime and standard library. Of course there may be some feature that make compiler's life easier, but still things are way, way more co…

It's more the fact that power efficiency is something Arm values quite lot in their philosophy since their products are used in mobile and edge devices.

So you're talking about Arm as CPU design, not as the ISA, yup?
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