Nadella States Microsoft Will Keep Buying from Nvidia and AMD Even If It Rolls Out Its Own Chips
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Recently, Microsoft made an announcement revealing that its inaugural batch of self - developed AI chips, the Maia 200, has commenced operations within a data center. The company also has plans to ramp up its global deployment over the upcoming months. This chip is specifically positioned as an AI inference powerhouse, designed to excel in inference scenarios. It has been meticulously optimized to handle high - intensity production - level workloads, like online inference for large - scale models. According to the performance metrics published by Microsoft, the Maia 200 outpaces Amazon's most recent Trainium chip and Google's latest - generation TPU in terms of processing speed. Microsoft's move is aimed at securing a technological advantage in the fiercely competitive market of cloud vendors, all vying to develop their own AI acceleration chips.