Qualcomm and MicrosoftQualcomm made waves today at the Open Compute Project (OCP) US Summit when they announced a new collaboration with Microsoft, aimed at “accelerating next-gen cloud services” on Qualcomm’s 10 nanometer, 48-core Centriq 2400 platform. Centriq backgroundFirst, some background: Qualcomm’s recently announced Centriq 2400 is billed as the world’s first 10nm server processor—based on an instruction set from ARM Holdings. Appears a deepening relationship between Microsoft and QualcommIt is important to note that the Qualcomm and Microsoft relationship actually spans corporately from mobile to the datacenter. Last quarter, Microsoft announced support for Windows 10 on Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon processors and now the two companies are going public with their datacenter plans. The datacenter-focused collaboration between Qualcomm and Microsoft has several different elements to it.

Source: Forbes March 08, 2017 15:08 UTC