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Hardware & devices

Driving advances in hardware, devices and cyber-physical systems.

Microsoft Research Podcast | What's Your Story | Weishung Liu

What’s Your Story: Weishung Liu | Microsoft Research Podcast

Microsoft at ASPLOS 2024: Advancing hardware and software for high-scale, secure, and efficient modern applications

Inclusive Digital Maker Futures for Children via Physical Computing | Event

ICRA 2024 conference recap blog - RASCAL library

RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval

Publication

TENET: An Efficient Sparsity-Aware LUT-Centric Architecture for Ternary LLM Inference On Edge

Zhirui Huang, Ran Shu, Shijie Cao, Ran Shu, Ian Wang, Ting Cao, Chixiao Chen, Yongqiang Xiong

September 2025

Group

Software-Hardware Co-design (SHARC)

Our group’s mission is to pioneer technologies that power AI and ML workloads with unmatched performance, efficiency, and trust.

Video

Six Years of Rowhammer: Breakthroughs and Future Directions

August 28, 2025 | Stefan Saroiu

This talk presents the work done over the past six years as part of Project STEMA at Microsoft. STEMA stands for Secure, Trusted, and Enhanced Memory for Azure. We discuss our journey in understanding Rowhammer…

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Publication

Falcon: A Reliable, Low Latency Hardware Transport

Arjun Singhvi, Nandita Dukkipati, Prashant Chandra, Hassan M. G. Wassel, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Anthony Rebello, Henry Schuh, Praveen Kumar, Behnam Montazeri, Neelesh Bansod, Sarin Thomas, Inho Cho, Hyojeong Lee Seibert, Baijun Wu, Rui Yang, Yuliang Li, Kai Huang, Qianwen Yin, Abhishek Agarwal, Srinivas Vaduvatha, Weihuang Wang, Masoud Moshref, Tao Ji, David Wetherall, Amin Vahdat

SIGCOMM 2025 | September 2025

Publication

Honeycomb: Ordered Key-Value Store Acceleration on an FPGA-Based SmartNIC

Junyi Liu, Aleksandar Dragojevic, Shane Fleming, Antonios Katsarakis, Dario Korolija, Igor Zablotchi, Ho-Cheung Ng, Anuj Kalia, Miguel Castro

IEEE Transactions on Computers | December 2023, Vol 73: pp. 857-871

Project

Publication

SRC: A Scalable Reliable Connection for RDMA with Decoupled QPs and Connections

Yiren Zhao, Ran Shu, Yongqiang Xiong

APNet | August 2025

Publication

Sulfonated Benzocinnolines for Alkaline Redox-Flow Batteries

Siddhant Singh, Jessica L. Tami, Cameron Gruich, Allison J. Gatz, Jason Dong, Bichlien Nguyen, Jake Smith, Bryan R. Goldsmith, Anne J. McNeil, David G. Kwabi

ACS Applied Energy Materials | June 2025

Event

OSDI 2025

July 7, 2025 – July 9, 2025 | Boston, MA, USA

Microsoft is a proud sponsor of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ’25) (opens in new tab). It will take place on July 7–9, 2025, at the Sheraton Boston in…