Maia 300 reveal could land in September as Microsoft books TSMC capacity for 2027

Microsoft is hoping to publicly launch its Maia 300 AI accelerator as soon as September, according to a report by The Information.

The company is also in talks with TSMC to secure more than 300,000 units by next year.

Microsoft to reveal Maia 300 during the fall

Microsoft has contacted Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to reserve capacity for the chips, which are due to be delivered in 2027. The order alone would exceed the tens of thousands of Maia 200 parts produced so far.

Microsoft’s longer-term target is to exceed one million units, but packaging negotiations and supply of components may cap the actual number the company gets.

The Maia 200 slipped after early tests failed to meet internal goals. Since then, it has reached only a handful of data centers.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told investors on the company’s fiscal Q4 2026 earnings call on July 29 that the chip runs 30% better on performance per dollar than existing hardware and is being scaled to support OpenAI and Microsoft’s own MAI models.

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