IIRC, Azul is a hardware vendor for the JVM ... can you please share a public source on this collaboration between Azul & Microsoft?

I don’t think Azul have sold hardware in a few years. Their current offerings, Zing and Zulu, are cross platform JVMs and don’t appear to be sold with any hardware.

Azul was originally a hardware vendor with Java-optimized silicon. They haven't sold hardware AFAIK for probably over a decade.

Yes, they used to have hardware with a ton of cores/cpu's and large amounts of RAM if I remember correctly.

Yeah, it was around the time that thread-level parallelism was getting a lot of love. As I recall, they had some massive number of cores directly connected to each other and garbage collection at least partly in hardware. They got burned for pretty much the same reason a lot of the other custom CPU hardware of the time got burned; if you could just wait for Intel to double performance in a couple years it wasn't really worth going with some one-off design for a temporary advantage.

This is the actual JEP https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/391.

This is an early access build from today https://github.com/microsoft/openjdk-aarch64/releases/tag/16...

Sure, here sparing you the effort to learn how to use Google or whatever search engine you like using.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/09/microsoft-windows-mac-arm...

Thanks for the link but there was no need for you to be patronizing about it.

FWIW, I originally thought your mention of Azul was a typo, so I parsed your comment as "Azure and Microsoft" before I realized the tautology, which was why I posted the question. I didn't realize that Azul had pivoted to be a software-based vendor of the JVM.

I answered like that because of what looked like a snarky comment.