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Microsoft promises fast and flexible FPGA chips will unlock new AI abilities for customers using its Azure cloud-computing service.
In the news | Wired
Microsoft Charts Its Own Path on Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft is pitching the idea of running AI projects atop chips called FPGAs, whose designs can be reprogrammed to support new forms of software on the fly.
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft Build goes gaga for AI: Azure Machine Learning and beyondMicrosoft is luring A.I. developers to its cloud by offering them faster chips
Microsoft says FPGA acceleration of models can actually be a good bit faster than GPU acceleration, so Azure Machine Learning Hardware Accelerated Models have the potential to create a super-fast AI infrastructure.
In the news | Intel Newsroom
Intel FPGAs bring power to artificial intelligence in Microsoft Azure
Project Brainwave unlocks the future of AI by unleashing programmable hardware using Intel FPGAs to deliver real-time AI.
An initiative called Project Brainwave lets developers in Microsoft's data centers use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), which can be customized even after they've been plugged into servers.
Microsoft unveils Project Brainwave for real-time AI
By Doug Burger, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Today at Hot Chips 2017, our cross-Microsoft team unveiled a new deep learning acceleration platform, codenamed Project Brainwave. I’m delighted to share more details in this post, since Project Brainwave achieves a major leap…