Microsoft's Latest AI Chip Claims Performance Edge Over Amazon and Google (geekwire.com)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/01/26/2244208/microsofts-latest-ai-chip-claims-performance-edge-over-amazon-and-google
- Source link: https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-unveils-maia-200-ai-chip-claiming-performance-edge-over-amazon-and-google/
> Microsoft on Monday [1]announced Maia 200, the second generation of its custom AI chip, claiming it's the most powerful first-party silicon from any major cloud provider. The company says Maia 200 [2]delivers three times the performance of Amazon's latest Trainium chip on certain benchmarks , and exceeds Google's most recent tensor processing unit (TPU) on others. The chip is already running workloads at Microsoft's data center near Des Moines, Iowa. Microsoft says Maia 200 is powering OpenAI's GPT-5.2 models, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and internal projects from its Superintelligence team. A second deployment at a data center near Phoenix is planned next.
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> It's part of the larger trend among cloud giants to build their own custom silicon for AI rather than rely solely on Nvidia. [...] The company says Maia 200 offers 30% better performance-per-dollar than its current hardware. Maia 200 also builds on the first-generation chip with a more specific focus on inference, the process of running AI models after they've been trained. [...] Microsoft is also opening the door to outside developers. The company announced a software development kit that will let AI startups and researchers optimize their models for Maia 200. Developers and academics can [3]sign up for an early preview starting today.
[1] https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/01/26/maia-200-the-ai-accelerator-built-for-inference/
[2] https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-unveils-maia-200-ai-chip-claiming-performance-edge-over-amazon-and-google/
[3] https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR_70TiI5iu5HrYsHqj3v-nFUQkU4MThLQ1RFVVlWSVEyRklYRTBYMlYwUy4u
WOW even faster MS AI! (Score:2)
Why have a lowly slop bucket when we can have the MS Slopcrete Sprayer! But remember, Satya the Slopmonger cries when you say "AI Slop"
"Mmmm, slop, is there anything it can't write?" -- Home Simpson
Made by ... you have one guess (Score:1)
> It's part of the larger trend among cloud giants to build their own custom silicon for AI rather than rely solely on Nvidia.
And they are all made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) .
Meanwhile, from chips to ships for no particular reason, China has over 200X the shipbuilding capacity of the US at around 23 million tons. Which coincidentally is about the same as the US in 1942 or 1943.
Microslop claims a lot... (Score:2)
... like, for example, having "Majorana based quantum computers". So now it's a better AI chip. If only there was any reason to believe them.
So what you're saying is (Score:2)
So it enshitifies faster than the competition. Got it.
Still, nobody wants MS AI (Score:1)
At least that seems to be the most common reaction.
Re: (Score:3)
Yeah, it's like Microsoft and all the FAANG companies are playing a game no one cares about but them. Meanwhile, NVidia is happy to sell them booster packs for their decks.
Re:Still, nobody wants MS AI (Score:4, Informative)
I care about this game, it's fucking up the prices and availability of basic computer components and my electric bill.