Microsoft Supercharges Bing Search With Programmable Chips

Doug Burger called it Project Catapult. Burger works inside Microsoft Research–the group where the tech giant explores blue-sky ideas–and in November 2012, he pitched a radical new concept to Qi Lu, the man who oversees Microsoft’s Bing web search engine. He wanted to completely change the machines that make Bing run, arming them with a […]