(Image credit: Future) Microsoft announced its latest high performance computing (HPC) Azure virtual machines powered by a custom AMD CPU that may have once been called MI300C.The HBv series of Azure VMs are focused on delivering high amounts of memory bandwidth, an important specification for HPC; Microsoft calls it the “biggest HPC bottleneck.” Previously, Microsoft had used Milan-X and Genoa-X server CPUs with AMD’s 3D V-Cache to provide this extra bandwidth, but for the latest HBv5 VMs, Micr...