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January 26, 2026
Microsoft’s latest AI chip goes head-to-head with Amazon and Google
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TL;DR
- Microsoft's Maia 200 AI chip is rolling out to data centers.
- The chip is built on TSMC's 3nm process and contains over 100 billion transistors.
- Maia 200 offers 3 times the FP4 performance of Amazon's Trainium and superior FP8 performance to Google's TPU.
- It is designed for large-scale AI workloads and offers improved performance per dollar.
- Microsoft will use Maia 200 for OpenAI's GPT-5.2, Microsoft Foundry, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
- Microsoft's Superintelligence team will be the first to use the chips.
- An early preview of the Maia 200 SDK is being offered to academics, developers, and AI labs.