Satya Nadella: ‘our biggest bet yet on our own silicon’ (Maia 300, multi-gigawatt Maia deployments)
Satya Nadella @satyanadellaXImportance: major (4 of 5)
Why it matters
Microsoft’s CEO announces Maia 300 and the plan to make the Maia family the primary inference system for Microsoft’s own products from next calendar year.
Summary
First-hand announcement of Maia 300 and of multi-gigawatt Maia deployments starting next calendar year; claims 40% more tokens per watt than leading GPU-based systems.
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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.
