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Azure Maia 300

Announced

Microsoft's third-generation inference accelerator, announced Oct. 12, 2026. Production deployments are planned for 2027. Microsoft says a rack holds 96 accelerators in a 167 kW envelope, with eight HBM4 stacks at 18.0 TB/s peak bandwidth inside a 950 W TDP, and compute chiplets on TSMC N2P. Microsoft expects up to 7x the rack token throughput of Maia 200 and 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems. It is not offered for hourly rental. A general manager declined to set a date for multi-gigawatt deployment beyond the 2027 production start.

Latest update Oct 12, 2026

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Current status

Announced Oct. 12, 2026. Production deployments targeted for 2027. Not generally available, and not offered for hourly rental.

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In the news1

  1. Microsoft unveils Maia 300 and targets multi-gigawatt inference

    Microsoft said on Oct. 12 that Azure Maia 300 will begin production deployments in 2027 and that the Maia family will scale to multi-gigawatt deployments that year as its primary inference system. It expects a 96-accelerator rack to deliver up to 7x Maia 200 token throughput and 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems. CNBC reported a Microsoft general manager declined to set a firm date for that multi-gigawatt scale, and Maia chips are not offered for hourly rental.

    blogs.microsoft.com www.cnbc.com

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