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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 capacity, marking a major shift in its cloud infrastructure strategy. The company has long depended heavily on Nvidia's GPUs to power its AI services, and building out its own silicon at this scale signals a push to reduce that reliance while expanding datacenter capacity for AI workloads.

Why now: Tech watchers are closely tracking how far major cloud providers will go to replace Nvidia hardware with in-house AI chips.

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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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