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Microsoft had acquired Fungible for around $190 million.
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Fungible is a startup that manufactures a typical data center hardware called a data processing device (DPU).
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Microsoft today confirmed the acquisition but did not confirm the purchase price.
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Fungible stated that it will use Fungible's technology and team to provide "multiple DPU solutions and network innovation, as well as hardware system advancements."
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Girish Bablani (CVP, Microsoft Azure Core division) wrote that "Fungible's technologies help enable high-performance, scalable, disaggregated, scaled-out data center infrastructure with reliability and security,"
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"Today's announcement further signals Microsoft's commitment to long-term differentiated investments in our data center infrastructure,"
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"which enhances our broad range of technologies and offerings including offloading, improving latency,"
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"increasing data center server density, optimizing energy efficiency and reducing costs."
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A DPU is hardware specifically designed to perform data processing tasks.
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It can also be used for network routing and security.