3m ebo

Microsoft and 3M have announced a July 15 partnership that puts an unglamorous AI data-center problem in focus: fiber connectors that need cleaning before they can be deployed at scale. Azure will become the first publicly announced hyperscale cloud provider to deploy 3M’s Expanded Beam Optical...

Microsoft and 3M have announced a strategic partnership that puts 3M’s Expanded Beam Optical (EBO) fiber-connectivity technology into Azure data centers and brings Microsoft AI tools into 3M’s internal operations. According to Microsoft’s July 15 announcement, Azure will be the first publicly...