Microsoft unveils Maia 300 with 40% tokens per watt boost

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced on October 12, 2026, the company's largest investment to date in its own silicon, with plans to scale the Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments beginning next calendar year and establish it as the primary inference system for Microsoft products and services.

The announcement highlighted the introduction of Maia 300, which delivers 40 percent more tokens per watt than leading GPU-based systems, while Maia 200 is already in deployment across the US, Europe, and Australia, achieving up to 1.7 times more tokens per watt for experiences in Teams and Copilot, according to a post by Satya Nadella on X.