Microsoft drops Maia 200: a new AI chip with serious power

Technology Jan 27, 2026

Microsoft just launched its Maia 200 AI chip, packing over 140 billion transistors and built on cutting-edge 3nm tech.
Already running in Iowa Azure data centers, it's powering advanced AI for Microsoft's Superintelligence team and Copilot apps.
The Maia 200 hits more than 10 petaFLOPS FP4 and five petaFLOPS FP8, all while being about 30% more efficient than before.

Specs at a glance:

The Maia 200 comes loaded with 216GB of ultra-fast HBM3e memory and seven TB/s bandwidth.
Its design lets you link up to over six thousand accelerators—so clusters can hit a wild 61 exaFLOPS of performance.

How does it stack up?

Maia outpaces Amazon's Trainium by three times in FP4 tasks and beats Google's latest TPU at FP8 work.
If you care about fast, efficient AI for big models, this chip is definitely worth watching.