Microsoft puts Cisco Silicon One P200 systems to work in its network

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Cisco says Microsoft has started using systems built on its P200 deep-buffer routing chip, designed to link data centers for AI workloads Microsoft has started using systems powered by Cisco ’s Silicon One P200, a routing chip built for one of the least glamorous and most important jobs in AI: moving huge volumes of data between data centers. The chip was only unveiled on October 8, 2025. Seeing it running inside one of the world’s largest cloud networks this soon suggests the hyperscalers were not waiting around. Cisco calls it a deep-buffer routing processor.
Source: Crypto Briefing







