Microsoft scales its inference silicon to multi-gigawatt: Maia 300 promises 40% more tokens per megawatt, production in 2027
Microsoft plans to scale its Azure Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027 and make Maia the primary inference system for its products and services, with the third-generation Maia 300 expected to deliver 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems.