Microsoft unveils Maia 300 AI chip with 2nm compute chiplets

Top News · Reported · digitimes.com

Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, its latest in-house AI chip, alongside an accompanying server rack. Maia 300 is an AI application-specific integrated circuit, or ASIC. The chip's compute chiplets are manufactured by TSMC, while supply-chain sources point to Lenovo for assembly of the server racks.

Here's what changed:

• Microsoft unveiled both Maia 300 and the accompanying rack. The hardware announcement covers the in-house AI chip together with its server rack.
• TSMC manufactures Maia 300's compute chiplets using N2P, described as an enhanced, extended version of TSMC's baseline 2nm N2 manufacturing process.
• Supply-chain sources indicate Lenovo, rather than Taiwanese manufacturers, will assemble Maia 300 server racks. That would put rack assembly at Lenovo and manufacturing of Maia 300's compute chiplets at TSMC.

Sources: digitimes.com