US EditionMicrosoft rolls out next generation of its AI chips, takes aim at Nvidia's software
Microsoft's Maia 200 chip offers 30% better performance per dollar and powers services like Azure and GPT-5.2 with over 10 petaflops in 4-bit precision.
- On Jan 26, Microsoft unveiled Maia 200 in San Francisco, deploying it this week in the Iowa data center as `the most efficient inference system Microsoft has ever deployed`.
- Tech giants are designing their own chips to cut reliance on NVIDIA, and Microsoft built Maia 200 to compete with Amazon Web Services and Google while addressing surging demand from generative AI developers.
- Built on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s 3-nanometer process, Maia 200 contains over 100 billion transistors, delivers over 10 PFLOPS and around 5 PFLOPS , and links four chips per server with up to 6,144 chips wired together.
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