{
  "id": 13984363,
  "title": "Microsoft plans huge deployment of its own AI chips, with an eye on saving costs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/microsoft-plans-huge-deployment-of-its-own-ai-chips-with-an-eye-on",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-12T14:43:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Economic Times Tech",
    "slug": "economic-times-tech",
    "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-plans-huge-deployment-of-its-own-ai-chips-with-an-eye-on-saving-costs/articleshow/134896014.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Microsoft announced a new AI chip, the Maia 300, on Monday, with plans to deploy over a million units next year for its internal AI services. The Maia 300 is the third generation of custom chips designed for AI data processing tasks like coding and complex business operations. The chip is currently running Microsoft's in-house AI models and OpenAI models on its Azure cloud service. The Maia 300 differs from Nvidia's approach, using multiple smaller chiplets with 2-nanometer and 3-nanometer technologies for different functions. Microsoft claims the Maia 300 delivers 40% more computing per watt compared to Nvidia's GPU-based systems. The company plans to roll out multi-gigawatt deployments of the Maia 300 chip starting next year and expects to spend more than $175 billion on capital expenditures this year.",
  "summary": "The Maia 300, as the chip is called, is the third generation of the company's custom chips designed to handle AI data crunching such as coding and carrying out complex business tasks on a user's behalf. Its predecessor is already running Microsoft's in-house AI models, as well as models from OpenAI delivered on Microsoft's Azure cloud computing service.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}