Author: Rani Borkar

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rani Borkar. Semiconductor and silicon technology are the basis of digital transformation happening everywhere, across industries and our daily lives, impacting the way we work, learn, and play. The continuous improvement in the performance and power of silicon has been key to enabling this innovation. Here at Microsoft, we’ve empowered our long-standing partners in the semiconductor industry to embrace Azure’s cloud infrastructure and scale out electronic design automation (EDA). With a new EDA-optimized cloud environment running on Azure, the launch of Synopsys Cloud marks a significant milestone for the industry by offering silicon design teams ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rani Borkar. Aiming at delivering the most sustainable, scalable, and reliable cloud for Azure customers, continued innovation in cloud hardware is a constant priority for Microsoft. This extends beyond server architecture and rack design to include intelligent provisioning, deployment, and ultimately, decommissioning of cloud computing hardware in datacenters. As we look to deliver upon Microsoft’s commitments towards a net-zero carbon future, our cloud supply chain has integrated a zero-waste philosophy into every stage of the datacenter hardware lifecycle. For this edition of our Hardware Innovation blog series, I’ve invited Paul Clark, GM, Cloud Engineering and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rani Borkar. Leading hardware engineering at a company known for its vast portfolio of software applications and systems is not as strange as it sounds, as the Microsoft Cloud depends on hardware as the foundation of trust, reliability, capacity, and performance, to make it possible for Microsoft and our customers to achieve more. The underlying infrastructure that powers our 60 plus datacenter regions across 140 countries consists of hardware and systems that sit within the physical buildings of datacenters—enabling millions of customers to execute critical and advanced workloads, such as AI and quantum computing, as ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rani Borkar. Right now, every industry and every customer is going through a massive transformation, and cloud computing is often a central enabler of this. The silicon industry is also experiencing change as a critical part of the fast-growing cloud computing ecosystem—an ecosystem where silicon and chip design workloads must meet the rising bar for performance, complexity, and perceived costs. In Azure, we focus on the needs of the semiconductor design industry, so we can solve problems and provide solutions for our customers. With our partners at TSMC, we share the belief that using the ... Read More