azure cobalt 200

Microsoft’s new Arm-based Azure Cobalt 200 marks a deliberate shift from generic benchmark chasing to workload-driven silicon, delivering a purpose-built platform that accelerates encryption, compression, and analytics inside Azure while promising up to 50% higher performance over its Cobalt 100...

Microsoft’s Azure Cobalt 200 arrives as a radical second act in its custom‑silicon playbook: a chipletized Arm-based server SoC that packs 132 Arm Neoverse V3 cores, a 12‑channel DDR5 memory interface, built on TSMC’s 3 nm process, and a set of on‑SoC accelerators and per‑core power controls...

Valve’s long-running Steam Deck wishlist finally shipped a small but consequential battery- and OLED-friendly feature this month, while Microsoft quietly flipped a major switch in datacenter silicon with the announcement of the Azure Cobalt 200 — a 132-core Arm-based SoC aimed squarely at...

Microsoft’s cloud silicon journey has taken another step — but this time the announcement rests largely on secondary reporting rather than an official Microsoft spec sheet. According to industry coverage, at Microsoft Ignite 2025 the company unveiled Azure Cobalt 200, described as the...

Microsoft’s Ignite preview of the Azure Cobalt 200 marks another clear step in the company’s long game: owning more of the cloud stack from silicon to services. The Cobalt 200 is presented as the next-generation Azure CPU — built on a 3 nm process and claimed to deliver roughly up to 50% higher...

Amid the accelerating digital transformation of business, education, and society, few forces are as quietly essential as the modern datacenter. Behind nearly every online service, financial transaction, remote work session, and AI-enabled application runs the quiet hum of server racks inside...