Microsoft’s next-generation Maia AI chip is dealing with a delay of no less than six months, pushing its mass manufacturing to 2026 from 2025, The Info reported on Friday, citing three individuals concerned within the effort.
When the chip, code-named Braga, goes into manufacturing, it’s anticipated to fall effectively wanting the efficiency of Nvidia’s Blackwell chip that was launched late final yr, the report stated.
Microsoft had hoped to make use of the Braga chip in its knowledge facilities this yr, the report stated, including that unanticipated modifications to its design, staffing constraints and excessive turnover had been contributing to the delay.
Microsoft didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.
Like its Huge Tech friends, Microsoft has centered closely on creating customized processors for synthetic intelligence operations and common function purposes, a transfer that might assist scale back the tech big’s reliance on dear Nvidia chips.
Cloud rivals Amazon and Alphabet’s Google have each raced to develop chips in-house, custom-made 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 – known as Tensor Processing Models – and in April unveiled its seventh-generation AI chip designed to hurry the efficiency of AI purposes.
Amazon in December additionally unveiled its next-generation AI chip Trainium3 that’s set to be launched late this yr.
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