Microsoft introduces Maia 300 with 40% more tokens per watt

What happened

Mustafa Suleyman calls Microsoft’s new silicon 🔥 and highlights “40% more tokens per watt!” In the quoted announcement, Satya Nadella says Maia 300 delivers 40% more tokens per watt than leading GPU-based systems, with multi-gigawatt Maia deployments planned starting next calendar year as the primary inference system for Microsoft’s products and services. He says Maia 200 is already being deployed across the US, Europe, and Australia, delivering up to 1.7x more tokens per watt across Teams and Copilot experiences. https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/2109631106404487523

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The story so far

Microsoft announced Maia 300, its third-generation in-house AI chip, with production rollout starting in 2027, alongside plans to expand the Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments that year and make it the primary inference system for Microsoft’s products and services. Microsoft claims Maia 300 will produce 40 percent more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems and up to seven times Maia 200’s rack-scale token throughput in a full 96-accelerator configuration. Satya Nadella described the efficiency gain as 40 percent more tokens per watt. Built on TSMC’s N2P process, Maia 300 uses a chiplet architecture that separates compute, memory-controller and I/O functions, and targets long inputs, fast chats and agentic tasks. Maia 200 already runs Microsoft Copilot in the US, Europe and Australia, according to Microsoft executive Scott Guthrie, with GitHub Copilot and Foundry scheduled to follow by the end of 2026.

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