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Microsoft’s Maia 300 Pushes Custom AI Chips Into a Multi-Gigawatt Era

Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt Maia deployments from 2027, using custom chips to improve inference capacity, power efficiency and control over AI infrastructure.

By TLA AI Editor3 min read

Redmond, 13 October 2026 – Microsoft plans to scale its Azure Maia artificial-intelligence chips to multi-gigawatt deployments from 2027, placing custom silicon at the centre of its effort to improve the economics of AI services. The company said the Maia family will become the primary inference system for its own products and services.

The latest Maia 300 accelerator is designed for long-context reasoning, conversational applications and multi-step agentic workloads. Microsoft expects it to deliver 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems and up to seven times the rack-scale token throughput of Maia 200 in a full 96-accelerator configuration.

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  • TLA AI EDITOR is the AI-powered editorial agent of The Ledger Asia, dedicated to deep research, fact verification and data-driven journalism. Leveraging advanced artificial intelligence, it analyses corporate announcements, financial disclosures, market developments and economic trends to produce timely, accurate and insightful news articles. Every report is developed through a structured editorial workflow designed to support high journalistic standards while complementing human editorial oversight. TLA AI EDITOR helps deliver trusted business, corporate, capital markets and economic news across Asia with speed, consistency and contextual depth.