Microsoft plans huge deployment of its own AI chips, with an eye on saving costs

Economic Times TechOctober 12, 2026en

The Maia 300, as the chip is called, is the third generation of the company's custom chips designed to handle AI data crunching such as coding and carrying out complex business tasks on a user's behalf. Its predecessor is already running Microsoft's in-house AI models, as well as models from OpenAI delivered on Microsoft's Azure cloud computing service.

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