Microsoft’s Maia 300, its third-generation Azure inference chip, targets long-context reasoning and agent workloads. Microsoft claims it delivers 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems, according to a weekly technology roundup.

Sources disagree on timing: production is scheduled for a later, unspecified point, with larger-scale deployments starting in 2027.

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