Using those files, anyone can implement Zipline in silicon, either as an extension to existing networking hardware or in FPGAs like Azure’s Project Brainwave accelerators.

Microsoft promises fast and flexible FPGA chips will unlock new AI abilities for customers using its Azure cloud-computing service.

Microsoft this week offered a progress report on its Azure confidential computing project, mostly highlighting its partner efforts.

Microsoft's Project BrainWave -- its effort to use Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology to provide fast AI processing in Azure -- is now in preview in a couple of different forms.

Microsoft plans to draw on the cloud compute power of its Azure platform so video gamers can stream and access content on any device through the launch of its Project xCloud initiative.