Microsoft Details Maia 200 Accelerator, Ditches Cache Hierarchy

Microsoft published the architecture of its second-generation Maia 200 inference accelerator at HotChips 26. Already deployed in Azure, the chip targets trillion-parameter frontier models and eliminates the cache hierarchy in favor of software-defined dataflow for peak LLM inference performance.

2026-08-26 ~ 2026-08-27 · 3 related posts

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• Microsoft details Maia 200: no cache hierarchy, software-defined dataflow at 10K TFLOP/s FP4 — beenwrekt · 2026-08-27