![]() The combat is turn based with you having a set amount of mana and a deck of cards representing actions, each costing a certain amount of mana to cast. Much like Slay the Spire its all just an excuse for combat scenarios. Something about humans discovering multiple universes and breaking time and space that they call the Neoverse. There is a slight story which scrolls on the main menu. Neoverse is very similar in concept but has some nifty ideas of its own that make it worth a look. I’m not one for card games and I’ve only semi-recently come around to Rogue-likes but the challenge offered combined with the learning curve and depth really struck a chord. Main PS4 / Reviews tagged 3d / cards / neoverse / rogue-lite / slay the spire / turn-based by Gareth This differs from Amazon’s Nitro which frees up all host CPU cores for VMs. This product offloads many hypervisor, host, network, and storage related tasks, but for some reason Azure instances with Azure boost still have to give up host CPU cores for infrastructure related tasks. Īs part of the announcements today, Microsoft is also announcing the Azure Boost network adaptor, which is a 200G DPU based on an external FPGA and an internally designed ASIC. Bing still relies heavily on FPGAs, in contrast to Google search which is primarily accelerated by TPUs. The purpose of this FPGA was primarily for Bing, but it had to be scrapped due to Intel’s execution issues. Initially Project Catapult was based entirely on standard FPGAs, but Microsoft eventually engaged with Intel for a custom FPGAs. Microsoft Project Catapult for a long time which targets search, AI, and networking. Microsoft has also internally developed multiple generations of root of trusts that are found on every single server they install in their datacenters. They even ported Windows specifically for this ISA ! Microsoft has historically worked with AMD on semi-custom gaming console chips, but they are also now extending partnerships to custom Arm based Windows PC chips. For example, did you know that Microsoft developed their own custom CPU called E2 with a custom instruction set that utilized EDGE (Explicit Data Graph Execution). ![]() It should be noted that while Microsoft is currently behind on deploying custom silicon in their datacenters relative to Google and Amazon, they have a long history of silicon projects. ![]() We will also share what we hear about GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 model performance for Maia 100. We will dive into Maia 100 volumes, competitiveness with AMD MI300X, Nvidia H100/H200/B100, Google’s TPUv5, Amazon’s Trainium/Inferentia2, and Microsoft’s long-term plans with AI silicon including the next generation chip. Microsoft’s systems level approach is very notable, and so we will also go into rack level design for Maia 100, networking (Azure Boost & Hollow Core Fiber) and security. There are 2 major silicon announcements for today’s Azure Ignite event, the Cobalt 100 CPUs and the Maia 100 AI accelerators (also known as Athena or M100). Today we want to dive into Microsoft’s internal silicon efforts. Outside of accelerators there are also significant requirements for 800G PAM4 optics, coherent optics, cabling, cooling, CPUs, storage, DRAM, and various other server components. ![]() We detailed Microsoft’s ambitious plans with AMD MI300 in January and more recently the MI300X order volumes for next year. While the majority of the AI infrastructure is going to based on Nvidia’s GPUs in the medium term, there is significant effort to diversify to both other silicon vendors and internally developed silicon. This infrastructure buildout is aimed squarely at accelerating the path to AGI and bringing the intelligence of generative AI to every facet of life from productivity applications to leisure. While that may seem like hyperbole, look at the annual spend of mega projects such as nationwide rail networks, dams, or even space programs such as the Apollo moon landings, and they all pale in comparison to the >$50 billion annual spend on datacenters Microsoft has penned in for 2024 and beyond. Microsoft is currently conducting the largest infrastructure buildout that humanity has ever seen. ![]()
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