In late March of this year, at least three of Microsoft's recruitment jobs were from the public cloud service department, seeking talents for AI processors.
In the following April, the job requirements announced by Microsoft's public cloud service department included a silicon project manager and an engineer who combined hardware and software design and artificial intelligence optimization acceleration.
Foreign media in the report said that from the recent recruitment situation, Microsoft is following the pace of Google, independent design of artificial intelligence processors.
Under the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft demonstrated its investment in cloud services in order to create a full-featured cloud service. The specialized processor is Microsoft's proof that it can provide enterprises with cloud services. A way of artificial intelligence services.
Google first proposed the use of artificial intelligence processors for cloud services. Its tensor processor (TPU) has evolved to the third generation. TPU can replace NVIDIA's GPU in artificial intelligence. Both TPU and GPU can be used to train neural networks. Analyze a large amount of data, such as pictures, and find the desired pattern.