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Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture
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Hacker News | Oct 12, 2026 | azhenley
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Maia 300 evolves this architecture for long-context, reasoning-intensive, and decode-heavy inference. Maia 300 brings 2. 5 times the memory bandwidth, 33% more capacity, and approximately 2 times the HBM bandwidth per watt compared with Maia 200 Maia 300 makes the network a native extension of its software-defined dataflow architecture. Building on the foundational energy efficiency of the Maia SoC architecture, the Maia 300 rack co-designs server layout and density, network topology and switching, power and cooling design, and advanced telemetry to deliver up to 2. 5x more performance per watt compared to Maia 200.
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