Microsoft CTO Says He Wants to Swap Most Amd and Nvidia Gpus for Homemade Chips

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Microsoft's CTO expresses interest in replacing most AMD and Nvidia GPUs with in-house chips, sparking consideration of the potential implications and feasibility of such a move.

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evanjrowley

3 months ago

Do they scencerely want to free themselves from Nvidia's dominance? If they do, then they could be sensible and expand support for GPU partitioning[0] in Windows. In addition to Nvidia, Microsoft could be using Intel Arc Graphics Virtualization[1] and AMD Instinct Virtualization[2] for their cloud workloads. Right now, they have a self-imposed limitation that limits it to Nvidia cards and Windows Server 2025.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualizat...

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...

[2] https://instinct.docs.amd.com/projects/virt-drv/en/latest/us...

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