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# Torsten Hoefler on Maia 300: 'Our SDLA is a great architecture for LLMs'

Torsten Hoefler 🇨🇭 (@thoefler), X, 2026-10-12.
Source: https://x.com/thoefler/status/2109657493341372497

## Why it matters

First-hand comment from an ETH Zurich professor who links the Maia architecture paper (arXiv 2608.24664) and hints at further specifications.

## Summary

Posted Oct 12, 2026 (14:48 UTC), quoting @satyanadella (https://x.com/satyanadella/status/2109631106404487523). Hoefler (ETH Zurich, head of SPCL; his profile does not state a Microsoft role) quotes Nadella's announcement: 'Maia is going strong!! Next chip coming online soon at multi-gigawatt deployment. Wait for the next record breaking specs. Our SDLA is a great architecture for LLMs', with a link to arXiv 2608.24664. The paper is "Maia 200: A Software Defined Dataflow System for Large-scale AI Acceleration" (posted 25 Aug 2026; title and date from the arXiv API, body not read).

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## Archived text

> Maia is going strong!! Next chip coming online soon at multi-gigawatt deployment. Wait for the next record breaking specs 😉.
> 
> Our SDLA is a great architecture for LLMs 😀.
> 
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24664
> 
> > 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