Every major Nvidia customer is now a competitor as Microsoft reveals new Maia chip

What's happening

Microsoft unveiled the Maia 300, a next-gen custom AI chip and 96-chip rack configuration that it plans to scale to multi-gigawatt deployments and run its AI services on starting in 2027. Microsoft and Azure blogs and press outlets say the 96-chip configuration promises seven times the token throughput of its predecessor and that production deployments are due in 2027. The company is planning gigawatt to multi-gigawatt rollouts of Maia-based Azure accelerator racks over the coming years.

Why it's trending

Because Microsoft is moving from being a major Nvidia customer to deploying its own large-scale, in-house AI accelerators at data-center scale starting in 2027.

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