ai accelerators

The semiconductor industry’s supply chain tension just tightened another notch: memory suppliers are actively policing orders to curb hoarding even as hyperscalers race to deploy custom inference silicon, and Microsoft’s newly announced Maia 200 accelerator — built on TSMC’s 3 nm process — is...

Seeing “There has been an error” in the Microsoft Store is one of those Windows annoyances that shows up suddenly, blocks downloads or updates, and makes otherwise simple tasks feel like a technical emergency — but in the vast majority of cases the fix is straightforward and non‑destructive if...

Microsoft's virtual datacenter tour — presented through Channel Eye on February 19, 2026 — pulls back the curtain on the cloud’s physical backbone, showing how Azure, Microsoft 365, and expanding AI services are supported by a global lattice of facilities, engineering innovation, and an...

Microsoft’s Maia 200 is not a subtle step — it’s a direct, public escalation in the hyperscaler silicon arms race: an inference‑first AI accelerator Microsoft says is built on TSMC’s 3 nm process, packed with massive on‑package HBM3e memory, and deployed in Azure with the explicit aim of...

Microsoft’s unveiling of the Maia 200 AI accelerator and its companion system marks a deliberate push by a major cloud vendor into the hardware space—and it could reshape how telcos deploy AI at the edge and in their core networks. The new silicon promises large memory capacity, a fabric built...

Microsoft’s announcement of the Maia 200 marks a decisive escalation in the hyperscaler chip wars: a second‑generation, inference‑first accelerator Microsoft says is built on TSMC’s 3 nm process, packed with massive on‑package memory and a new Ethernet‑based scale‑up fabric — and already being...

Microsoft is rolling Copilot Vision into Windows — a permissioned, session‑based capability that lets the Copilot app “see” one or two app windows or a shared desktop region and provide contextual, step‑by‑step help, highlights that point to UI elements, and multimodal responses (voice or typed)...

Microsoft’s Maia 200 announcement is more than a product launch — it’s a direct challenge in a widening hyperscaler arms race for AI compute, and Microsoft’s public claims paint a bold picture: more than 100 billion transistors on TSMC’s 3 nm node, native FP4/FP8 tensor hardware, “three times”...