Microsoft Cobalt 200

Owner The company that specified the chip and runs it in its own cloud, data centers or products.

Microsoft 1

Role What the owner says the chip is for: training, inference, both, or a general-purpose server CPU.

Server CPU 1

Foundry The fab that manufactures the die (TSMC, Samsung, SMIC, Intel).

TSMC 1

Node Process node as the owner or foundry states it, for example 'TSMC N3' or '7 nm'.

TSMC N3P 1

Precision note What the throughput figures mean: dense or sparse, which precision, per chip or per package, and any figure the owner states only in another unit.

Two 66-core chiplets on Arm Neoverse CSS V3, 12 memory channels, 3 MB L2 per core, 192 MB L3. VMs scale to 128 vCPUs. 1

CPU cores Cores per socket, for server CPUs.

132 2

Status Announced: public roadmap without verified deployment. Sampling: first silicon or limited internal use. Preview: customers can request early access, without a GA claim. Deployed: stated production use or general availability. Discontinued: program stopped.

Preview 1

Announced Year the owner first announced the chip publicly.

2,025 2

Deployment scale The largest deployment the owner or a named report states: chip counts, clusters, gigawatts or regions.

Early access preview in 8 Azure regions since June 2026; general availability not announced (Microsoft, Jun 2026) 1

How to get it How an outside buyer can use the chip: a named cloud instance or service, a product, or 'Internal only'.

Azure Dpsv7, Dplsv7, Epsv7, Mpsv4 and Lpsv5 VMs (early access preview) 1

Not verified in the sources reviewed: design partner, partner basis, memory, power.

1. Microsoft Azure Blog: New Azure Cobalt 200 VMs deliver 50% performance improvement accessed 2026-11-11
2. ServeTheHome: Microsoft Azure Cobalt 200 launched with 132 Arm Neoverse V3 cores accessed 2026-11-11