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Microsoft's Microfluidics: Revolutionizing Datacenter Cooling

2025-09-24

Microsoft is developing microfluidics, a revolutionary chip cooling technology, to address the escalating heat challenges in datacenters. Traditional air and cold plate cooling are insufficient for the power demands of future high-performance AI chips. Microfluidics dramatically improves cooling efficiency by directly delivering coolant to the chip surface, reducing energy consumption, and enabling higher server density and advanced 3D chip architectures. This technology not only boosts compute performance but also reduces datacenter energy usage, leading to environmental benefits and aiming to become an industry standard, driving innovation in chip technology.

Microsoft's Analog Optical Computer: Faster, More Energy-Efficient Computing

2025-09-08

Microsoft has developed a novel Analog Optical Computer (AOC) that leverages photons for computation, demonstrating significant potential in solving optimization problems and running AI models. The AOC achieved breakthroughs in medical image reconstruction and financial transaction settlement, such as reducing MRI scan times to one-fifth and efficiently processing complex financial transactions. Microsoft is publicly sharing its AOC's algorithm and digital twin model to foster further research, aiming to build a more efficient and energy-saving computing platform for the future.

Microsoft Unveils Majorana 1: A Breakthrough Topological Quantum Chip

2025-02-19

Microsoft has announced Majorana 1, the world's first quantum chip based on a novel Topological Core architecture. Leveraging a groundbreaking topoconductor material, it achieves more reliable and scalable qubits. This is poised to revolutionize quantum computing, potentially enabling industrial-scale problem-solving within years, not decades. The unique topological qubit design boasts inherent error resistance and digital control, paving the way for million-qubit quantum computers capable of tackling complex challenges such as microplastic degradation and self-healing materials.