Microsoft's Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU now live and powering Azure VMs

Microsoft's Cobalt 100 Arm CPUs have reached general availability in its Azure cloud, creating another non-x86 option for running VMs in the Redmondian cloud. The processors power three instance types: the Dpsv6, Dplsv6, and Epsv6. The first two instance types are intended for general purpose computing. The Dpsv6 instances …

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Sophie

Here's to you, Sophie, how your ideas have taken root.

[stryqx]

Re: Sophie

Sophie was instrumental, but let's not forget Chris Curry, Hermann Hauser, Steve Furber, Robin Saxby and all the other Acorn/Apple/VLSI Technology staff, without which there would be no BBC microcompoter, no ARM processor, no Archimedes/RISC PCs, no Apple Newton with its commercial failure, and no IP licensing of a processor/chipset/SoC architecture. Kudos to all of them for enabling billions of people to have access to this incredible portable technology.

[Rich 2]

So…

Not content with fucking up every bit of software they touch, MS are looking at how they can fuck up the hardware too. Yay!!!

[mark l 2]

"The Dpsv6 instances offer VMs ranging from two virtual CPUs and 8GiB of memory at list price of $51 a month..."

That seems expensive when you consider Oracle offer a 4 vCPU 24GB instance with ARM Ampere on their always free tier, even if it is not on the latest chips, and its also with Oracle so not the best company to get into bed with.

Still ive had mine running for zero costs for over 2 years now with virtually no downtime, but its obviously nothing mission critical i use it for as Oracle could pull the plug on it any day.

[luis river]

REMARK

MS it had total knowledge about CPU and SOFT overlapping, significance of swift soft execution, in industry only IBM had that characteristic...future CHIP business by MS it would be GREAT.