Microsoft unveils Maia 100 AI and Cobalt 100 Arm chips

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Microsoft unveiled two chips at its Ignite conference: the Maia 100 AI chip and the Cobalt 100 Arm chip. The Maia chip competes with Nvidia's AI GPUs, while the Cobalt chip targets general computing tasks. Microsoft, with 21.5% cloud market share, plans to offer virtual-machine instances running on Cobalt chips in 2024. The Maia chip is being tested for AI workloads in Bing, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI's GPT-3.5-Turbo.


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