Microsoft’s custom chip will be produced by Intel

But this innovative move, It will be held in cooperation with technology giant Intel. This partnership shows that both companies have the potential to combine their expertise to deliver a unique and powerful product in the market. This special chip from Microsoft will probably be used in a number of areas from cloud computing to artificial intelligence and will strengthen the company’s technological infrastructure. This development means Microsoft is opening a new page in hardware innovation and may have significant repercussions in the industry.

Intel’s relatively new Foundry division, previously Intel
Foundry Services It was known as and has received a significant order as of today. Bloomberg ve The
Wall According to the Street Journal, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that the company will leverage Intel’s latest 18A (1.8nm) manufacturing process for a chip it is designing in-house. But according to Intel’s process roadmap, that’s Microsoft’s new chip.
2025’e It means we won’t be able to see as much.

The companies did not provide any information about the nature of the silicon in question, but Microsoft last
November Azure Maia AI Accelerator and Azure, specially produced in Cobalt 100 CPU has introduced server chips, which are expected to be released “early” this year to power its AI services. Cobalt 100 is based on the Arm architecture, and Intel had been optimizing the 18A process for Arm designs since April last year (and later even became an Arm investor), so this collaboration is likely to be a new generation
Cobalt CPU’ya There is a high probability that it will cause

Microsoft’s custom chip will be produced by Intel

Aside from the efficiency improvements typically expected as node size decreases, Intel 18A also introduces “the industry’s first back-end power solution also offers.
of the IEEE According to Spectrum, this separates the power link layer from the data link layer, moving the former underneath the silicon substrate – as the name suggests. This provides improved voltage regulation and lower resistance, which results in faster logic and lower power consumption, especially when 3D stacking is applied.

On Intel’s fourth quarter earnings call CEO Pat Gelsinger “The 18A is expected to reach production readiness in the second half of ’24.” Intel’s own 18A-based processors – for servers “Clearwater Forest”
and “Panther Lake” for customers – 2025’e Microsoft’s next chip is likely to be in a similar time frame.

At Intel’s event today, the executive shared an expanded Intel Foundry process technology roadmap, which
ASML’s “High-NA EUV” It features a new 14A (1.4nm) node based on a (high numerical aperture extreme ultraviolet) lithography system. According to AnandTech, this 14A breakthrough could help Intel make up for its laggard after late EUV adoption for the Intel 4 (7nm) node, but risk production won’t happen until the end of 2026.

Intel Dökümhane, Gelsinger in February 2021 Immediately after assuming the role of CEO, Intel
TSMC and launched the division as part of its ambitious plan to stand out in a contract chip manufacturing market that could compete with companies like Samsung. Before Microsoft, Intel Foundry’s customers included MediaTek, Qualcomm and Amazon There are big names like. The company still aims to become the “second largest external foundry” by production revenue by 2030 and believes this could happen as early as this year.