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Microsoft’s Maia 200 has moved from lab talk to production racks — and CEO Satya Nadella was explicit that the move won’t end long-standing partnerships with Nvidia or AMD, even as Microsoft touts aggressive performance claims for its new inference accelerator. m]) Background / Overview...

Microsoft is rolling Copilot Vision into Windows — a permissioned, session‑based capability that lets the Copilot app “see” one or two app windows or a shared desktop region and provide contextual, step‑by‑step help, highlights that point to UI elements, and multimodal responses (voice or typed)...

Microsoft is reportedly in advanced talks with Broadcom to co-design custom AI chips for Azure, a development that — if finalized — would sharpen the industry’s move toward vertically integrated, hyperscaler-owned silicon and reshape cloud AI infrastructure economics and competition. Background...

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...

Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI has moved decisively from software and cloud into silicon: Satya Nadella confirmed that Microsoft will be able to use OpenAI’s custom AI chip designs alongside its own in‑house efforts, giving Azure a legally backed pathway to incorporate OpenAI‑derived...

Microsoft's newest pivot in AI hardware strategy stretches the company's long-standing partnership with OpenAI into the silicon layer: Satya Nadella confirmed that Microsoft will be able to use OpenAI’s custom chip designs alongside its own internal efforts, a development that reshapes Azure's...