While AMD survives due to adapted for the needs of gaming consoles component manufacturers, Intel is openly sympathetic to the idea of programmable matrices integration in server Xeon processors. The so-called FPGA-matrix allow to accelerate the execution of certain specialized algorithms, while preserving hardware configuration flexibility - the same array can be reconfigured for other tasks.
Microsoft executive vice president of corporate and "cloud" products Scott Guthrie at the Technology Conference Deutsche Bank in 2016 talked mostly about the software and its services corporation, but one comment in passing touched upon the type of hardware solutions, which Microsoft uses in its experiments servers. According to Guthrie, Microsoft experts openly discuss the possibility of using a programmable hardware for the operation of Azure service. Corporation bought even for the respective experiments FPGA-matrix, to evaluate the effectiveness of their use, and was very pleased with the results. In the coming weeks, Microsoft executives must make some important statements on this subject. Related Products :
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