The Maia 200 chip, which is being produced by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), is making its way to Microsoft data centres in Iowa, with deployments headed to the Phoenix area next. The chips will also be used to power the Copilot assistant for businesses and AI models, including OpenAI’s latest, that Microsoft rents to cloud customers. Microsoft’s chip push started years after Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google began designing their own chips. The high costs and short supply of the latest industry-leading chips from Nvidia has fuelled a scramble to find alternative sources of computing power. Microsoft says its chip delivers better performance on some AI tasks than comparable semiconductors from Google and Amazon Web Services.

Source: The Edge Markets January 26, 2026 16:53 UTC