Microsoft Azure Cobalt 200 Launched with 132 Arm Neoverse V3 Cores

Microsoft showed off its newest Arm CPU. The Microsoft Azure Cobalt 200 is the company’s latest CPU, now being deployed for 2026 customer workloads. The company also shared one of the more interesting block diagrams to come from a cloud provider and that the new chips will be built on TSMC 3nm.

Microsoft Azure Cobalt 200 Shown

Here is the block diagram that Microsoft shared. The packages have two chips with a high-bandwidth interconnect between them. Based on the Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems V3 (CSS V3) with 192 , Microsoft is able to integrate newer cores than the NVIDIA Grace CPU, for example. Each tile has 66 active cores (presumably for yield), six memory channels, and a Data Movement Accelerator, Crypto and Compression accelerator, and more. That makes the entire chip a 132 core, 12-channel design. Something else to note is that that accelerator design is reminiscient of what Intel has been trying to do with its…