{"id":553140,"date":"2026-01-30T04:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/553140\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T04:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:35:12","slug":"microsoft-wont-stop-buying-ai-chips-from-nvidia-amd-even-after-launching-its-own-nadella-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/553140\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft won\u2019t stop buying AI chips from Nvidia, AMD, even after launching its own, Nadella says\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft this week deployed its first crop of its homegrown AI chips in one of its data centers, with plans to roll out more in the coming months, it says.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The chip, named the Maia 200, is designed to be what Microsoft calls an \u201cAI inference powerhouse,\u201d meaning it\u2019s optimized for the compute-intensive work of running AI models in production. The company released some impressive processing-speed specs for Maia, saying it outperforms Amazon\u2019s latest Trainium<\/a> chips and Google\u2019s latest Tensor Processing Units (TPU).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

All of the cloud giants are turning to their own AI chip designs in part because of the difficulty, and expense, of obtaining the latest and greatest from Nvidia \u2014 a supply crunch that shows no signs of abating.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

But even with its own state-of-the-art, high-performance chip in hand, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the company will still be buying chips made by others.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a great partnership with Nvidia, with AMD. They are innovating. We are innovating,\u201d he explained. \u201cI think a lot of folks just talk about who\u2019s ahead. Just remember, you have to be ahead for all time to come.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cBecause we can vertically integrate doesn\u2019t mean we just only vertically integrate,\u201d meaning building its own systems from top to bottom, without using wares from other vendors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That said, Maia 200 will be used by Microsoft\u2019s own so-called Superintelligence team, the AI specialists building the software giant\u2019s own frontier models. That\u2019s according to Mustafa Suleyman<\/a>, the former Google DeepMind co-founder who now leads the team. Microsoft is working on its own models to perhaps one day lessen its reliance on OpenAI, Anthropic, and other model makers.<\/p>\n

Techcrunch event<\/p>\n

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The Maia 200 chip will also support OpenAI\u2019s models running on Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud platform, the company says.\u00a0But, by all accounts, securing access to the most advanced AI hardware<\/a> is still a challenge for everyone, paying customers and internal teams alike.<\/p>\n

So in a post on X<\/a>, Suleyman clearly relished sharing the news that his team gets first dibs.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a big day,\u201d he wrote when the chip launched. \u201cOur Superintelligence team will be the first to use Maia 200 as we develop our frontier AI models.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft this week deployed its first crop of its homegrown AI chips in one of its data centers,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":553141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,21233,738,252,1671,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-553140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-chips","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-microsoft","tag-nvidia","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115982193333176327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}