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Definition: Maia chip


An AI accelerator designed by Microsoft and made by TSMC. Named after the mother of Hermes, the messenger god in Greek mythology, the branding symbolizes "foundational growth."

The Maia 100 was introduced in 2023. Along with NVIDIA GPUs, Maia chips are deployed in Microsoft's Azure cloud computing service. Unlike a GPU, Maia was designed for AI only and not graphics rendering. Rather than building in Tensor cores like NVIDIA, Maia uses Microsoft's own parallel processing architecture. See Microsoft SQ, Cobalt 100 and Microsoft Azure.




First Maia Chip
The Maia 100 has more than 100 billion transistors, and it was designed for both training and inference. The Maia 200 and 300, the latter expected in 2027, are designed primarily for inference. (Image courtesy of Microsoft Corporation.)





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