The next generation of Microsoft’s Maia AI chip is facing a delay of at least six months, pushing its mass production until 2026 since 2025, cited in the information citing the three people included in the report on Friday.
The report states that when the NVIDIA blackwell chip performance is expected to fall well at the end of last year, Chip, Code-Nam Braga, when released late last year, it is expected.
Microsoft had expected to use the Braga chip in its data centers this year, the report stated that unpredictable changes in their design, staffing obstacles and delay in high turnover were contributed to.
Microsoft did not immediately respond to the request of a Reuters for comments.
Like its big tech peers, Microsoft has focused a lot on developing custom processors for artificial intelligence operations and general objective applications, a step that will help reduce the dependence of the tech legend on the price Nvidia chips.
Both Cloud rivals Amazon and Alphabet’s Google have run to develop chips in in-house, adapted to their specific requirements with the target of improving performance and reduced costs.
Microsoft introduced the MAIA chip in November 2023, but lagged behind his peers to ramps to the scale.
Meanwhile, Google has seen success with its custom AI chips – called the Tensor Processing Unit – and unveiled its seventh generation AI chip designed to speed up the performance of AI applications in April.
In December, Amazon also unveiled its next generation AI Chip Trainium 3 which is ready to release late this year.
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