Microsoft Ramps Up Homegrown AI Chip Push

3 sourcesFirst reported Oct 12, 2026, 21:30 GMT+9

First report · The Verge

Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the "primary AI inference system" for Microsoft's products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI workloads in the cloud, it's also more capable of handling the latest reasoning models and agentic tasks. Maia 300 will […]

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First report · The Verge

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