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Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt scale-up of its Maia AI chips

Original: Microsoft has officially signaled a monumental shift in its cloud infrastructure, announcing plans to scale its custom s

Microsoft has announced plans to scale its custom Azure Maia AI accelerator chips to multi-gigawatt capacities, marking a major shift in its cloud infrastructure strategy. The move reduces the company's heavy reliance on Nvidia's GPUs for AI workloads, and observers see it as part of the broader race among hyperscalers to build in-house silicon for AI datacentres.

Why now: Microsoft's move to custom AI silicon at massive scale signals a challenge to Nvidia's dominance and reflects the industry-wide AI infrastructure arms race.

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• Microsoft has officially signaled a monumental shift in its cloud infrastructure, announcing plans to scale its custom silicon, the Azure Maia AI accelerator series, to multi-gigawatt capacities. For years, the Redmond-based tech giant relied almost exclusively on Nvidia's… · startupmac · 2

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