Getting To Know Microsoft Maia 100 And Cobalt 100 AI Chips Made To Compete With Chips From NVIDIA

Getting to know Microsoft Maia 100 and Cobalt 100 AI Chips (photo: dock. Microsoft)

YOGYAKARTA - This year there are two new AI chips that Microsoft is currently introducing. Because these two AI chips are ori products from Microsoft for this year. This product is currently being released at the Microsoft Ignite event on November 15, 2023, United States time. Are you familiar with the Microsoft Maia 100 and Cobalt 100 AI chips?

The reason is that the two chip products made by Microsoft are named Azure Maia 100 AI Accelerator and also Azure Cobalt 100 CPUs.

The reason is, the Maia 100 chip is intended to create and run the AI model. As for the Cobalt 100 Chip itself will run a lighter job.

AI Maia 100 Chip (Azure Maia 100 AI Accelerator)

For the specs, the AI Maia 100 (Azure Maia 100 AI Accelerator) chip will implement a 5nm fabrication which is reinforced with 105 billion transistors in the chip. This chip was designed in such a way by Microsoft to maximize hardware utilization in order to achieve excellent performance.

According to Microsoft, the Maia 100 chip will strengthen AI running on the Microsoft Azure platform.

Cobalt 100 AI Chip (Azure Cobalt 100 CPU)

For the chip, Microsoft's next making, the Cobalt 100 Chip (Azure Cobalt 100 CPU), the information is still unclear. This is because Microsoft itself did not provide a detailed explanation regarding the specifications.

However, Microsoft revealed that the Cobalt 100 chip already has 128 cores in it. The manufacture of this chip is based on the architecture of the CSS Neoverse ARM. Later this chip will be promised to have quite good performance with good power efficiency support.

The plan is for the Azure data center to use both Microsoft-made chips in early 2024. This indicates that the two chips will be used to strengthen several Microsoft-owned AI-based services such as Azure Open AI Service, Copilot and several Microsoft-owned products that use AI-generative technology.

The world's demand for AI chips is currently in such a high increase. But most manufacturers are unable to provide such demand in bulk.

This is what causes limited supply. Because it is known that one of the best-selling AI chips today is NVIDIA H100. Reportedly, this chip has run out by 2024. With the scarcity of chips, it is believed to be the main reason for Microsoft in addition to releasing their dependence on NVIDIA, they can also produce their own AI chips.

How Much Is The Price Of Microsoft Maia 100 And Cobalt 100 AI Chips?

Looking at the AI chip previously made from NVIDIA, namely Nvidia H100, which is estimated to cost up to 40,000 US dollars, which if converted into rupiah of around Rp. 622 Million per unit. Of course, the two AI chips made from Microsoft will also be exorbitant, but because there is no direct confirmation of this, Microsoft will sell it cheaper than NVIDIA's AI chip product. This will shake the world's AI chip market!

Seeing the big movement from Microsoft, it is felt that Microsoft has done a fairly good effort. In the future these AI chips will develop and will also decorate the market. We'll just have to wait for further progress.

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