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Maia 100 Rack

Maia 100 Rack is a Microsoft AI system with 32 Microsoft Maia 100 and 8 Microsoft Cobalt 100.

Built from BenchGecko data as of April 14, 2026 · updates when the data changes

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TL;DR

Maia 100 Rack is a Microsoft AI system with 32 Microsoft Maia 100 and 8 Microsoft Cobalt 100.

Level 1

Microsoft's first custom AI silicon at rack scale. Maia 100 chips fabricated at TSMC on N5 with HBM3e. Designed for Azure AI inference and fine-tuning. Co-designed with the Cobalt ARM CPU for host compute. Microsoft's strategic hedge against NVIDIA dependency.

Level 2

The dataset lists 96 PFLOPS of FP8 compute and 48 PFLOPS at BF16. It has 6.1 TB of HBM3e. Interconnect: Custom Ethernet fabric. Power: 40 kW, liquid cooled.

Level 3

Known deployments: Microsoft Azure. Figures come from spec sheets and disclosures in the curated systems dataset, dated on the systems page.

The takeaway for you
If you are a
Researcher
  • ·32 × Microsoft Maia 100
  • ·Interconnect: Custom Ethernet fabric
If you are a
Builder
  • ·liquid cooling · 40 kW
  • ·Compare systems on /systems/microsoft-maia-100-rack
If you are a
Investor
  • ·Deployed by Microsoft Azure
If you are a
Curious · Normie
  • ·Maia 100 Rack is a big AI computer built from many Microsoft Maia 100 chips
Maia 100 Rack is a Microsoft AI system with 32 Microsoft Maia 100 and 8 Microsoft Cobalt 100.
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