About Microsoft (Azure Maia)
Maia is a line of AI accelerator chips designed by Microsoft for its own Azure cloud, rather than for sale to others. Maia 200, announced on 26 January 2026, is aimed at inference, which means running trained models to produce answers rather than training them. It is built on TSMC's 3-nanometre process. Microsoft says it serves models including OpenAI's GPT-5.2 for Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot, and that it first went live in the US Central datacenter region near Des Moines, Iowa.
Microsoft (Azure Maia) was founded in 1975 and is based in Redmond, WA, United States. It is listed under Custom Silicon, AI Accelerators.
Compute Technologies
- Custom Silicon
- AI Accelerators
What Microsoft (Azure Maia) works on
Custom Silicon
Custom silicon means a company designs its own chips for its own products or data centers instead of buying standard parts. The chip is made by a foundry such as TSMC, but the design belongs to the customer.
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
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