Microsoft's Maia 300 delivers up to 7x Maia 200 throughput per 96-accelerator rack at ~167kW
Beth_Kindig · x · 2026-10-14
Microsoft's custom Maia 300 accelerator will deliver up to 7x the throughput of the Maia 200 in a full 96-accelerator rack system while consuming about 167kW of power. Microsoft previously said the chip will scale to multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027 and offer 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems.
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