Microsoft to scale in-house Maia AI chips to multi-gigawatt inference by 2027
The Decoder · rss · 2026-10-12
Microsoft plans to make its in-house Azure Maia chips the primary AI inference system across its products starting in 2027, deployed at multi-gigawatt scale. The upcoming Maia 300 targets 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems, and CEO Satya Nadella calls it "our biggest bet yet on our own silicon" — a major push to cut inference dependence on external GPUs.
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