MICROSOFT TO EXPAND AZURE MAIA SYSTEM TO MULTI-GIGAWATT DEPLOYMENTS

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Microsoft has announced plans to expand its Azure Maia custom silicon system to multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027, making Maia the primary inference system for its products. Maia 200 is currently in production for workloads such as Microsoft Copilot, while the upcoming Maia 300 architecture is designed to deliver significant efficiency and throughput gains for long-context and multi-step agentic AI tasks.