Will Microsoft's new AI chip save us all from the AI boom, memory chips worth their weight in gold and, pretty soon, spiraling prices for everything from laptops to phones? Well, no, obviously not. Certainly not on its own. But it might just signal how we do eventually get out of this ridiculous mess.
The big news is that Microsoft has announced Maia 200, its latest in-house chip for running AI models. And it looks potentially very impressive. It's a massive 140 billion-transistor monster that, by at least some metrics, has the edge on even Nvidia's latest Blackwell-generation AI GPUs.
