Hardware · Updated 12 Oct, 06:30 pm IST
Microsoft unveils Maia 300 AI chip to reduce reliance on Nvidia GPUs
Why it matters for readers: It matters because big AI services you use may run on Microsoft’s own chips instead of Nvidia hardware in the future.
- Maia 300 is Microsoft’s third-generation in-house AI chip, positioned as a complete AI system for new AI workloads.1
- Microsoft expects Maia 300 to deliver 40% more tokens per megawatt compared to leading GPU-based systems.1
- In a full 96-accelerator configuration, Maia 300 can deliver up to 7× the rack-scale token throughput of Maia 200.1
- Microsoft plans to scale Azure Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027 and make Maia the primary inference system for its products and services.1
- Maia 300 succeeds Maia 200, which is already running production AI workloads such as Microsoft Copilot and GitHub Copilot.1
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