Microsoft's Maia 300 chip to cut Nvidia reliance, entering production in 2027
tomwarren · x · 2026-10-12
The Verge's Tom Warren covers Microsoft's third-generation in-house AI chip Maia 300:
- Positioned as the "primary AI inference system" for Microsoft's products, optimized for reasoning models and agentic workloads.
- Scott Guthrie: 40% more tokens per watt than leading GPU-based systems; up to 7x the rack-scale token throughput of Maia 200 in a full 96-accelerator configuration.
- Rolling out to production in 2027 as Microsoft scales Maia to multi-gigawatt deployments, lessening reliance on Nvidia and AMD.
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