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Microsoft Shifts to Custom AI Chips, Aiming to Reduce Dependency on Nvidia

Microsoft Shifts to Custom AI Chips, Aiming to Reduce Dependency on Nvidia

Microsoft weans itself off Nvidia chips with home-grown alternative
Microsoft weans itself off Nvidia chips with home-grown alternative

Maia will become the primary architecture for running AI models

Microsoft will soon run its services primarily on custom chips
Microsoft will soon run its services primarily on custom chips

CEO Satya Nadella touted "our biggest bet yet on our own silicon."

Microsoft plans to install multiple gigawatts of its latest AI chip for inference
Microsoft plans to install multiple gigawatts of its latest AI chip for inference

Microsoft will install more than one million of its latest-generation AI chips in data centres as it works to reduce its reliance on Nvidia.

Microsoft plans huge deployment of its own AI chips, with an eye on saving costs
Microsoft plans huge deployment of its own AI chips, with an eye on saving costs

The new version comes amid a flurry of custom chips from both cloud computing rivals and AI firms such as OpenAI aimed at loosening the hold of Nvidia on the AI computing market.

Microsoft bets on home-grown AI chip to challenge Nvidia
Microsoft bets on home-grown AI chip to challenge Nvidia

Microsoft plans to deploy enough of them to draw several gigawatts of electricity.

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