Microsoft has announced the launch of its latest chip, the Maia 200, which the company describes as a silicon workhorse designed for scaling AI inference. The 200, which follows the company’s Maia 100 ...

TL;DR: Microsoft's Maia 200 AI accelerator, built on TSMC's 3nm process with advanced FP4 and FP8 tensor cores, delivers over 10 petaFLOPS and 30% better performance-per-dollar than previous hardware.

Calling it the highest performance chip of any custom cloud accelerator, the company says Maia is optimized for AI inference on multiple models. Signaling that the future of AI may not just be how ...

The Maia 200 AI chip is described as an inference powerhouse — meaning it could lead AI models to apply their knowledge to real-world situations much faster and more efficiently. When you purchase ...

The Maia 200 chip, which is being produced by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., is making its way to Microsoft data centres in Iowa, with deployments headed to the Phoenix area next. Microsoft ...

Industry-first LPDDR5X IP system solution designed specifically for data centers utilizes RAIDDR ECC algorithm Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced the industry’s first LPDDR5X 9600Mbps memory IP ...

Microsoft said on Tuesday that it would be taking a series of steps toward becoming a “good neighbor” in communities where it is building data centers—including promising to ask public utilities to ...

The holidays end in just a handful of days. In theory, I should no longer be looking for holiday sweaters, but in part due to more of my colleagues joining in on festive wear, I’ve been wanting to ...

The US government has launched the Tech Force, a new technology workforce initiative designed to strengthen federal capabilities in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, software engineering, and ...

Microsoft Ads introduced two updates that could make campaign management and reporting clearer and more efficient. The changes: These updates solve two persistent problems: lost spend from blanket ad ...

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