Microsoft plans to scale its own Maia AI chips to gigawatt levels by 2027
Microsoft will make its in-house Azure Maia chips the main AI inference system across its products starting in 2027, deploying them at multi-gigawatt scale. The upcoming Maia 300 should deliver 40 percent more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems. CEO Satya Nadella calls it "our biggest bet yet on our own silicon."
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Oct 12, 2026
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Microsoft plans to deploy its Azure Maia AI chips at multi-gigawatt scale starting in 2027. They'll become the company's main inference system across its products, executive Scott Guthrie writes. Maia 200 already runs Microsoft Copilot in the US, Europe, and Australia. GitHub Copilot and Foundry follow by year's end. CEO Satya Nadella calls it "our biggest bet yet on our own silicon." The chip handles OpenAI, MAI, and open-source models, and Microsoft says…
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