Microsoft’s next-generation Maia AI chip is dealing with a delay of at the least six months, pushing its mass manufacturing to 2026 from 2025, The Information reported on Friday, citing three individuals concerned within the effort.
When the chip, code-named Braga, goes into manufacturing, it’s anticipated to fall nicely in need of the efficiency of Nvidia’s Blackwell chip that was launched late final yr, the report mentioned.
Microsoft had hoped to make use of the Braga chip in its knowledge facilities this yr, the report mentioned, including that unanticipated modifications to its design, staffing constraints and excessive turnover have been contributing to the delay.
Microsoft didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.
Like its Big Tech friends, Microsoft has centered closely on creating customized processors for synthetic intelligence operations and normal objective functions, a transfer that will assist scale back the tech big’s reliance on expensive Nvidia chips.
Cloud rivals Amazon and Alphabet’s Google have each raced to develop chips in-house, personalized for his or her particular wants with the aim of enhancing efficiency and decreasing prices.
Microsoft had launched the Maia chip in November 2023, however has lagged its friends in ramping it as much as scale.
Google, in the meantime, has seen success with its customized AI chips – referred to as Tensor Processing Units – and in April unveiled its seventh-generation AI chip designed to hurry the efficiency of AI functions.
Amazon in December additionally unveiled its next-generation AI chip Trainium3 that’s set to be launched late this yr.
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