Microsoft announces preview of Project Brainwave

At Microsoft's Build Developers Conference, The Company Is Announcing A Preview Of Project Brainwave Integrated With Azure Machine Learning, Which The Company Says Will Make Azure The Most Efficient Cloud Computing Platform For AI Project Brainwave is a hardware architecture designed to accelerate real-time AI calculations. The Project Brainwave architecture is deployed on a type of computer chip from Intel called a field programmable gate array, or FPGA, to make real-time AI calculations at competitive cost and with the industry's lowest latency, or lag time. This is based on internal performance measurements and comparisons to other organization's publicly posted information. At Microsoft's Build developers conference in Seattle this week, the company is announcing a preview of Project Brainwave integrated with Azure Machine Learning, which the company says will make Azure the most efficient cloud computing platform for AI. According to Allison Linn, senior content manager at Microsoft – in her blog – Mark Russinovich, chief technical officer for Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform, said the preview of Project Brainwave marks the start of Microsoft's efforts to bring the power of FPGAs to customers for a variety of purposes.