Posted 2/20/2024, 4:30:26 PM
Microsoft Developing Own Network Card to Boost AI Servers, Reduce Reliance on Nvidia
- Microsoft is developing a new network card to improve performance of its Maia AI server chip and reduce reliance on Nvidia
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has tapped Pradeep Sindhu, co-founder of Juniper Networks, to lead the network card effort
- The card is similar to Nvidia's ConnectX-7 card sold with its GPUs
- If successful, the card could reduce time and cost for OpenAI to train models on Microsoft servers
- Microsoft introduced its Maia chip in November to run large language models and support AI computing