Microsoft plans to scale its own Maia AI chips to gigawatt levels by 2027

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AI in practice Copy the url to clipboard Share this article Go to comment section Microsoft plans to scale its own Maia AI chips to gigawatt levels by 2027 Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 12, 2026 Microsoft Microsoft plans to deploy its Azure Maia AI chips at multi-gigawatt scale starting in 2027. The upcoming Maia 300 should deliver 40 percent more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU (a chip built for many calculations at once, used for graphics and AI) systems. Microsoft is a software and software development company based in Redmond, and its products and services include Azure.

They'll become the company's main inference system across its products, executive Scott Guthrie writes . Maia 200 already runs Microsoft Copilot in the US, Europe, and Australia. The chip handles OpenAI, MAI, and open-source models, and Microsoft says it pushes up to 1.7 times more tokens per watt than leading GPUs in Teams.