Microsoft reveals second generation of its AI chip in effort to bolster cloud business
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Microsoft announced the Maia 200, its second-generation AI chip intended as an alternative to Nvidia and cloud rivals' processors. The company said the chip will have wider customer availability, offers a preview SDK for selected developers and will power teams and services including the superintelligence group, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Microsoft Foundry. Microsoft is deploying Maia 200 in U.S. data centers, built on TSMC's 3nm process with four chips per server, Ethernet interconnects, and the ability to wire up to 6,144 chips for high performance and lower energy use. Microsoft claims the Maia 200 delivers about 30% higher performance for the same price and more high-bandwidth memory than comparable AWS Trainium and Google's TPU v7 options.
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