Microsoft’s latest AI chip goes head-to-head with Amazon and Google

Microsoft is announcing a successor to its first in-house AI chip today, the Maia 200. Built on TSMC's 3nm process, Microsoft says its Maia 200 AI accelerator "delivers 3 times the FP4 performance of the third generation Amazon Trainium, and FP8 performance above Google's seventh generation TPU."

Each Maia 200 chip has more than 100 billion transistors, which are all designed to handle large-scale AI workloads. "Maia 200 can effortlessly run today's largest models, with plenty of headroom...