Microsoft’s new Maia 200 accelerator signals a clear strategic pivot: build the economics of inference, not just raw training horsepower. The chip, unveiled by Microsoft on January 26, 2026, is a purpose‑built inference SoC fabricated on TSMC’s 3 nm node that stacks bandwidth and low‑precision...
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)...