Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs
Critical infrastructure update for developers building on Azure AI services, reducing dependency on third-party hardware.
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Microsoft announces Maia 300 AI chip with 40% better efficiency than GPUs, positioning it as primary system for Azure starting in 2027.
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Microsoft’s Maia 300 chip. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the "primary AI inference system" for Microsoft's products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI workloads in the cloud, it's also more capable of handling the latest reasoning models and agentic tasks. Maia 300 will start being rolled out to production in 2027, and it has been designed with efficiency in mind. "We expec