Microsoft has announced that Azure’s US central datacentre region is the first to receive a new artificial intelligence (AI) inference accelerator, Maia 200.

Microsoft Azure, or at least the part of it that handles the OpenAI service in the Sweden Central region, was down and out ...

Microsoft will be opening a new Azure region in China next year, in a move to reinforce the company's footprint in the country, where demand for cloud services is expected to skyrocket. The cloud ...

Microsoft today announced its plans to launch a new data center region in Austria, its first in the country. With nearby Azure regions in Switzerland, Germany, France and a planned new region in ...

As of this week, Microsoft now has added a fifth Chinese Azure region to its line-up. The new North China region in Hebei doubles the capacity of Microsoft's cloud portfolio in China, officials said ...

Microsoft is announcing a successor to its first in-house AI chip today, the Maia 200. Built on TSMC’s 3nm process, Microsoft says its Maia 200 AI accelerator “delivers 3 times the FP4 performance of ...

ZÜRICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Swiss enterprises, typically conservative about cloud migration, have grown more accepting of the Microsoft Azure cloud since a Switzerland region was established for it in ...