Microsoft dips toes into DPU with Azure Boost: Data Processing Unit market gets further validation as Microsoft seeks to disaggregate the data center

Microsoft dips toes into DPU with Azure Boost: Data Processing Unit market gets further validation as Microsoft seeks to disaggregate the data center


  • Microsoft introduces Azure Boost DPU to handle data-centric workloads
  • Specifically for Azure, integrates compute, storage, and networking
  • Custom hardware-software design boosts efficiency, lowers power needs

Traditional CPUs excel at general-purpose tasks but struggle to manage multiplexed streams from millions of network connections. GPUs, while effective for AI computations, are similarly not well-suited to these specialized workloads. To address this, the Data Processing Unit (DPU) was developed as a new class of silicon to complement CPUs and GPUs in large-scale data centers and efficiently handle high-volume processes.

At its recent Ignite event, Microsoft announced the Azure Boost DPU, a new SoC created in-house specifically for Azure.

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