Microsoft bets on homegrown AI chip to challenge Nvidia

Microsoft has announced its third-generation Maia 300 in-house AI chip, which is being designed as the primary AI inference system for the company's products and services. According to The Verge, the chip aims to improve the cost and efficiency of running cloud AI workloads and is more capable of handling agentic tasks and the latest reasoning models. Punch Nigeria reports that Microsoft plans a massive rollout of the chip in 2027 to power its products and reduce reliance on Nvidia.

Quartz states that Microsoft will use its own silicon, starting with the Maia 300, to handle incoming AI model requests. Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft’s cloud group, told The Verge that the Maia 300 is expected to deliver 40 percent more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems.

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