Microsoft plans to scale its own Maia AI chips to gigawatt levels by 2027

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Microsoft plans to scale its own Maia AI chips to gigawatt levels by 2027

The Decoder · Oct 12, 2026, 3:24 PM UTC

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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