Microsoft unveils Maia 300 chip with 40% more inference tokens per megawatt, multi-gigawatt rollout in 2027
thoefler · x · 2026-10-12
Microsoft officially introduced its next-gen custom accelerator Azure Maia 300 and announced plans to scale the Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments starting 2027.
- Maia 200 is already in production, serving Microsoft Copilot workloads and supporting MAI team model training; GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Foundry follow by year-end
- Maia 300, coming 2027: 40% more inference tokens per megawatt vs leading GPU-based systems, and up to 7x rack-scale token throughput of Maia 200
- Microsoft says Maia will become the primary inference system for its products and services
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