Satya Nadella unveils Maia 300 AI chip in Microsoft silicon push

Microsoft announced its largest investment to date in custom silicon to run internal artificial intelligence workloads.

Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella introduced the Maia 300 chip, which delivers 40 percent greater efficiency.

Microsoft plans to scale the Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments starting next calendar year.

The hardware will serve as the primary inference system for Microsoft's own products and services.

The initiative aims to reduce the company's reliance on external chips from Nvidia and AMD.

For Indian-origin engineers and enterprise tech teams, the platform shift anchors Microsoft's core AI services on proprietary hardware.