Microsoft unveils Azure Maia 300, its latest custom AI chip

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Microsoft has introduced Azure Maia 300, its latest custom chip, and says it will expand the Azure Maia system to multi-gigawatt deployments. The announcement page gives no specifications, performance figures or availability dates. It links to a deeper write-up of the Maia 300 architecture.

• The announcement covers the chip's role in Azure and how Microsoft co-designs chips with models, with a focus on efficient inference.
• The page says nothing about the timing or size of multi-gigawatt deployments; no customers or volumes are named.
• A linked analyst-quotes document and a post titled "The yield imperative" accompany the release.
• Microsoft's own page leaves the chip's performance and timing to the linked architecture write-up, which was not part of this announcement page.