{
  "id": 14040083,
  "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-14040083",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-12T20:24:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Investing.com",
    "slug": "investing-com",
    "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/microsoft-plans-huge-deployment-of-its-own-ai-chips-with-an-eye-on-saving-costs-4944480"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Microsoft has unveiled its latest custom AI chip, known as the Maia 300, and announced plans to deploy potentially over a million of them next year to support its internal AI services. This marks the third generation of custom chips developed by the tech giant for AI data processing tasks such as coding and handling complex business operations. The Maia 300 is already powering Microsoft's in-house AI models, as well as those from OpenAI running on Azure cloud computing service. The new chip comes as cloud computing competitors and AI firms like OpenAI seek to reduce Nvidia's dominance in the AI computing market. Unlike Nvidia's large single-chip AI accelerators paired with high-bandwidth memory chips, Microsoft's Maia 300 utilizes 2-nanometer technology chiplets for key computing functions and 3-nanometer tech for data movement and system processing. Each Maia 300 processor will be housed in racks containing 96 chips, consuming approximately 167 kilowatts of power, compared to Nvidia's 142 kilowatts using 72 GPUs. Microsoft claims the new chips deliver about 40% more useful computing power per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems, though it didn't specify the systems used for comparison. The company aims to roll out multi-gigawatt deployments of the Maia 300 chips starting next year and expects to invest over $175 billion in capital expenditures this year.",
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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."
}