Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic’s new alliance is a landmark shift in the AI infrastructure landscape: Anthropic will scale its Claude models on Azure, commit to buying roughly $30 billion of Azure compute capacity and contract as much as 1 gigawatt of compute powered by NVIDIA hardware, while...
Infosys’ announcement that it has developed an AI Agent tailored for energy‑sector operations signals a calculated move to convert agentic generative AI from marketing rhetoric into a practical, production‑oriented offering for drilling, utilities, pipelines and power generation — a solution the...
Microsoft’s latest AI push folds two big moves into one clear strategic play: a multibillion-dollar, in-region infrastructure and partnership program in the United Arab Emirates that formalizes sovereign cloud and in‑country Copilot processing, and a rapid rollout of Nvidia’s Blackwell family of...
Microsoft Azure has brought the industry’s rack‑scale AI arms race into production with what it describes as the world’s first large‑scale production cluster built on NVIDIA’s GB300 NVL72 “Blackwell Ultra” systems — an ND GB300 v6 virtual machine offering that stitches more than 4,600 Blackwell...
Microsoft’s Azure cloud has brought a new level of scale to public‑cloud AI infrastructure by deploying a production cluster built on NVIDIA’s latest GB300 “Blackwell Ultra” NVL72 rack systems and exposing that capacity as the ND GB300 v6 virtual machine family for reasoning, agentic, and...
Microsoft Azure’s new NDv6 GB300 VM series has brought the industry’s first production-scale cluster of NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems online for OpenAI, stitching together more than 4,600 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with NVIDIA Quantum‑X800 InfiniBand to create a single, supercomputer‑scale...
Omnissa’s message at Omnissa ONE 2025 was unmistakable: after the spin‑out from the VMware era, the company has sharpened its narrative around consolidation, choice, and pragmatic automation — and it’s laying out a product roadmap intended to turn that rhetoric into concrete operational value...
Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has publicly framed the company’s sprawling new Wisconsin AI campus — branded Fairwater — as a leap in raw frontier compute, saying the site “will deliver 10x the performance of the world’s fastest supercomputer today” and positioning the build as a cornerstone for...
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The race to build the world’s most powerful AI infrastructure has moved out of labs and into entire campuses, and Microsoft’s new Fairwater facility in Wisconsin is the clearest expression yet of that shift — a purpose-built AI factory that stitches together hundreds of thousands of...
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Omnissa’s Omnissa ONE 2025 announcements mark a decisive push to consolidate endpoint, server, VDI, and frontline-device management into a single, open, partner‑friendly digital work platform—promising simpler operations, faster Day‑0 support for Apple platforms, and broader infrastructure...
Omnissa’s One‑Two punch at Omnissa ONE 2025 is both strategic and tactical: the company pushed a broad set of platform enhancements that tighten endpoint consolidation, deepen lifecycle management across servers and clients, and expand third‑party choices through integrations with Nutanix...
ASUS has unveiled the ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3, a groundbreaking desktop workstation that integrates NVIDIA's Grace Blackwell GB300 Ultra Superchip, traditionally reserved for server environments, into a desktop form factor. This innovation brings unprecedented AI computing power directly to...
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Microsoft's ambitious endeavor to develop in-house AI chips has encountered significant setbacks, with the production of its next-generation Maia AI chip, codenamed "Braga," delayed by at least six months, pushing mass production to 2026. This postponement not only affects Microsoft's timeline...
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Microsoft's ambitious endeavor to develop custom AI hardware has encountered significant setbacks. The company's next-generation Maia AI chip, internally codenamed "Braga," is now slated for mass production in 2026, a delay from the initially planned 2025 timeline. This postponement not only...
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Microsoft's ambitious endeavor to develop an in-house AI chip, codenamed "Braga," has encountered significant setbacks, delaying its mass production to 2026 and raising concerns about its competitiveness against NVIDIA's established offerings.
The Genesis of Microsoft's AI Chip Initiative
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In the rapidly evolving world of high-performance computing, where generative AI and large language model (LLM) workloads push infrastructure far past yesterday’s limits, liquid-cooled servers have moved to center stage as both a symbol and enabler of the new AI-driven era. The launch of ZT...
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For many Windows enthusiasts and gamers alike, the allure of each new Windows 11 update is accompanied by a familiar pang of anxiety—will this be the version that finally breaks my setup, or will it deliver those long-promised enhancements? For those who’ve stayed on Windows 11 23H2 because of...
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Microsoft's recent unveiling of the Azure ND GB200 v6 Virtual Machines (VMs) marks a significant milestone in the evolution of AI infrastructure. These VMs, powered by NVIDIA's GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips, are poised to redefine the cost-performance dynamics in AI computing.
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In a significant advancement for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, Microsoft and NVIDIA have announced a deepened collaboration that has resulted in a remarkable 40-fold increase in AI processing speeds within Microsoft's Azure platform. This leap is primarily attributed to the...
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An ambitious new chapter is unfolding within the world of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing as OpenAI and Oracle collaborate on the Stargate AI data center project—a venture that combines staggering technological power, massive financial investment, and the cutting edge of...
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