Microsoft catapults datacenter performance with FPGAs
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Gamers and content creators are not alone in their frustration with the last decade's slowing increases in CPU performance. Massive datacenter operators like Microsoft are coming up with new ways to increase server performance using unconventional hardware. Microsoft in particular is upgrading 34 datacenters around the world with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in an operation the software giant calls "Project Catapult."
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