Microsoft Goes All-In On Its Own AI Chips

Microsoft Goes All-In On Its Own AI Chips

By Mitchell Duran
Publication Date: 2026-10-12 17:45:00

Microsoft Goes All-In On Its Own AI Chips – Moby

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Microsoft flirted with an all time high Monday afternoon after CEO Satya Nadella announced Maia 300, the next iteration of the tech company’s own silicon.

“Starting next calendar year, we will scale our Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments, making it the primary inference system for our own products and services,” Nadella wrote on X. “And we’re introducing Maia 300, which delivers 40% more tokens per watt compared to leading GPU-based systems.”

Nadella said Maia 200 is already deployed across the U.S., Europe and Australia, delivering up to 1.7x more tokens per watt.

Tokens per watt is a general efficiency metric for AI inference, or running models to generate responses. Think of tokens as output…