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This article details Microsoft's internal use of its custom Azure Cobalt 200 silicon (Arm Neoverse CSS V3) to accelerate electronic design automation (EDA) workloads for chip development. The results demonstrate significant performance gains in simulation, verification, and static timing analysis compared to previous generations, highlighting the strategic shift toward cloud-native infrastructure for designing complex silicon.
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Designing Azure silicon on Azure silicon: EDA workloads on Cobalt 200
Microsoft Azure Blog1 min read

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