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一 |     本文来自微信公众号：财联社AI daily （ID：gh_f7653dea6e99），作者：周子意                    据业内人士透露，微软已向英特尔下达其下一代人工智能芯片Maia 2的晶圆代工订单，计划采用英特尔的18A或18A-P制程。

二 |     A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man, and if you’d like to spend time with your family in Vito Corleone’s mansion from the seminal 1972 mafia film "The Godfather," you are about to get your chance. On Wednesday, the house used in the film will be up for rent on Airbnb.,An offer you can’t refuse.,In celebration of the film’s 50th anniversary, the family that resides in the house has decided to let someone else relax in the digs for a while. For the very modest price of $50 a night, you can rent out the 6,248 square feet Staten Island home for a month, totaling a reasonable $1,500. It includes a saltwater pool, basement pub, game room, gym, five bedrooms, and seven bathrooms.,In case you are worried about maintaining the property during your vacation, house cleaners and landscapers will come once a week, and pool cleaners will clean out debris twice a week.,How did things ever get so far?,Built in 1930, the house was owned by Edward and Mary Norton for nearly six decades. Gianni Russo, who played turncoat and Corleone’s son-in-law Carlo Rizzi, suggested the home to the producers of the film after a scouting trip to Long Island didn’t turn up any locations they liked. Russo grew up near the now-famous mansion and thought it’d be a perfect fit. While the house resides in an upscale Staten Island neighborhood, in the film it was meant to be Vito Corleone’s home in Long Island.,Legendary Godfather Producer, Robert Evans, Dies at 8928 October 2019, 17:32 GMT,When producers from Paramount asked if they could use the home, Edward Norton Jr.’s reaction was to close the door in their face, but when Norton told his wife who was at the door, Mary chased the producers down, asking them to come back. She agreed to let them use the location, asking only for a new slate roof.,“I could have gotten them much more money,” Russo told The New York Post.,After Edward Norton Jr. passed away in 2010 at the age of 96, Edward Norton III put the house up for sale. It stayed on the market until it was sold in 2012 for $1.7 million. It then went under a complete renovation, changing from an eight-bedroom, three-bath house into the layout it has now. It was then sold to its current owners in 2016 for $2.4 million.,Never tell anyone outside the Family what you are thinking again.,The listing says that the house is meant for five people and is best suited for two adults and three children. In case you are thinking of recreating the famous wedding scene from the start of the movie, don’t. Parties are not allowed at the residence. However, if you would like to do some Godfather-related sightseeing while you are there, you won’t have to travel far, just next door is the house of Vito’s youngest son, Michael Corleone.,Alternatively, if you’d rather be like Luca Brasi and sleep with the fishes, there is a WWII sea fort in the middle of the ocean for sale at the modest price of $60,000.。                   该芯片或将用于微软Azure数据中心等人工智能基础设施。                   如果消息属实，这笔交易将使微软能够获得一个位于美国当地的芯片供应链。此外，考虑到美国政府对英特尔的投资，这笔交易在其他方面也可能对微软有利。

三 |                    ▍潜在合作                    2024年初时，曾有报道称英特尔和微软宣布将利用英特尔的18A制造工艺打造一款“定制处理器”。当时这两家公司并未透露该芯片的具体用途，使得行业观察人士在猜测和解读方面有了很大的空间。                   如今，这两家公司打破了沉默，有消息人士公布了英特尔代工业务的18A代工厂客户信息，称英特尔代工厂正计划为微软生产一款基于18A或18A-P（性能提高8%）制程的人工智能处理器。                   这一潜在合作具有双重战略意义：一方面，此举旨在实现微软芯片供应链的多元化，以降低对单一供应商的过度依赖，增强供应链韧性；另一方面，也顺应了美国《芯片法案》中推动本土半导体制造业复兴的国家战略。

四 |                    对英特尔来说，这也将是个重大进展。如果微软的Maia 2有望在英特尔代工厂生产，那么后者公司的18A（或18A-P）的制造工艺预计将对英特尔开拓其他代工厂客户有利；此外，这份合同也有可能是英特尔节点良品率良好的标志。

五 |                    有分析指出，若此次合作进展顺利，双方可能就未来几代Maia芯片开启长期合作，从而在人工智能硬件领域形成更稳固的联盟。                   ▍微软对Maia项目寄予厚望                    微软在传统观念里是一家专注于云计算和软件的巨头，但该公司其实拥有一支强大的硬件开发团队，旨在为各种数据中心应用定制生产芯片，包括Cobalt CPUs、DPUs以及Maia人工智能加速器等。                   虽然微软目前在人工智能领域的大部分产品都还是依赖英伟达的人工智能加速器，但该公司正在大力投入，以优化其硬件和软件，以实现更高的性能，同时提高效率，从而降低总体拥有成本。

六 | 因此，Maia处理器对于微软来说是一项重要的项目。

七 |                    微软最初的Maia 100处理器是一块面积达820平方毫米的巨型硅片，其内部集成了1050亿个晶体管。不过其面积比英伟达的H100（814平方毫米）或B200/B300计算芯片组（750平方毫米）都要大。                   假设微软的人工智能处理器转为由英特尔代工制造，那么英特尔的18A制造工艺有望实现足够低的缺陷密度，从而能够以良好的良率大规模生产此类芯片。

八 | 当然，微软也可以将其下一代人工智能处理器划分为几个较小的计算芯片单元，通过英特尔的EMIB或Foveros技术进行连接，只不过这可能会对性能效率产生一定影响。

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