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Microsoft's Maia 300: Nadella's Biggest Bet on Homegrown AI Chips

📅 Oct 12, 2026

✍️ Aamir Raza

Microsoft's Boldest Chip Move Yet

Satya Nadella unveiled the Maia 300 AI chip, calling it the company's biggest bet yet on its own silicon.

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40% More Tokens Per Watt

Maia 300 promises 40% better efficiency than leading GPU systems, with a chiplet design built on TSMC's N2P process.

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Copilot Runs on Maia by 2027

Microsoft will scale Maia to multi-gigawatt deployments starting next year, making it the primary system for its own products.

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Monster Memory for AI Agents

Eight HBM4 stacks deliver 288GB of memory and 18 TB/s of bandwidth — built for long-context reasoning and agentic AI.

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One Million Chips in Sight

Reports say Microsoft is talking to TSMC about 300,000+ chips for 2027 delivery, aiming past one million units.

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