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# Mustafa Suleyman: 'Our new silicon is 🔥 40% more tokens per watt!'

Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman), X, 2026-10-12.
Source: https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/2109655335250366752

## Why it matters

First-hand reaction from the CEO of Microsoft AI, whose MAI model team is a named user of Maia.

## Summary

Posted Oct 12, 2026 (14:40 UTC). Mustafa Suleyman (CEO, Microsoft AI) quotes Satya Nadella's announcement (x-satyanadella-2109631106404487523): 'Our new silicon is 🔥 40% more tokens per watt!' No new information beyond Nadella's post.

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## Archived text

> Our new silicon is 🔥 
> 
> 40% more tokens per watt!
> 
> > Quoting @satyanadella: Today we are announcing our biggest bet yet on our own silicon.
> > 
> > Starting next calendar year, we will scale our Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments, making it the primary inference system for our own product and services.
> > 
> > And we’re introducing Maia 300, which delivers 40% more tokens per watt compared to leading GPU-based systems.
> > 
> > We are already deploying Maia 200 across the US, Europe, and Australia, delivering up to 1.7x more tokens per watt across experiences in Teams and Copilot.
> > 
> > Our goal is to build on the full-stack efficiency gains we’ve already seen, while continuing to bring the latest innovations from across the ecosystem into our fleet.

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## Cited in

- 2026-10-12: [Microsoft announces Maia 300, its third in-house AI chip, and plans multi-gigawatt Maia deployments from 2027](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-12-microsoft-maia-300/)

## People in this post

- [Satya Nadella](https://postcutoff.com/person/satya-nadella/), Chairman and CEO, Microsoft