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A new partnership between Microsoft and leading drone maker DJI builds on the work both companies are doing with data and agriculture that could make it easier and more affordable for farmers to quickly get…

New developer tools for Windows and Azure IoT Edge Services enable real-time AI and machine learning for drones.

Microsoft is pitching the idea of running AI projects atop chips called FPGAs, whose designs can be reprogrammed to support new forms of software on the fly.

Microsoft promises fast and flexible FPGA chips will unlock new AI abilities for customers using its Azure cloud-computing service.

Today, Microsoft* announced a public preview of Azure Machine Learning Hardware Accelerated Models powered by Project Brainwave*, a new AI inferencing service. The service uses Intel® Arria® 10 FPGAs, configured as “soft DNN processing units”…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is trying to distinguish the business technology giant from its technology brethren by focusing on digital privacy. That’s one of the takeaways from Nadella’s opening talk on Monday from Microsoft’s annual…

Microsoft believes FPGAs give it more flexibility than designing custom chips and that the performance it achieves on standard Intel Stratix FPGAs is at least comparable to that of custom chips.

Project Brainwave unlocks the future of AI by unleashing programmable hardware using Intel FPGAs to deliver real-time AI.