AMD has its head in the clouds—the Azure cloud

Today’s digital workforce relies on applications that use GPU acceleration at their core. From the most powerful 3D design tools, to common office productivity tools, and even web browsing, everyday applications are designed to require graphics acceleration support. That includes virtual machines, which without GPU acceleration will often struggle with some of the most common desktop tasks. Answering that need, this week AMD announced its 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors and AMD Radeon Instinct MI25 GPUs are going to work at Microsoft in the company’s Azure NVv4 virtual machines (VMs). These VMs, which are now generally available to customers in