Microsoft's biggest silicon bet: Maia 300 claims 40% more tokens per watt, multi-gigawatt Maia rollout
ai · x · 2026-10-12
Satya Nadella announced Microsoft's biggest bet yet on its own silicon: starting next calendar year, the Maia family will scale to multi-gigawatt deployments as the primary inference system for Microsoft's own products and services. Maia 300 promises 40% more tokens per watt vs leading GPU-based systems, while Maia 200 is already deployed across the US, Europe, and Australia delivering up to 1.7x tokens per watt in Teams and Copilot.
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