Microsoft's stock price hit a nearly one-year high as the company announced plans to deploy its own artificial intelligence chips on a large scale.

BlockBeats news, October 12: According to BIT (Bit.com) market data, Microsoft's stock price hit a near one-year high, rising 0.8% intraday.

On the news front, Microsoft plans to gradually increase the proportion of self-developed AI chips used in its data centers to reduce reliance on Nvidia GPUs. Microsoft said it will mainly rely on its self-developed Maia chip architecture to handle AI model requests in the future and plans to deploy multi-gigawatt-scale computing power on the Maia series chips.

Microsoft unveiled its third-generation AI accelerator chip, Maia 300, on Monday, with production expected in 2027. Each data center rack can carry 96 Maia 300 chips, twice as many as the previous generation Maia 200; compared with GPUs, its AI token processing capacity per rack can reach up to 7 times, and the number of tokens processed per megawatt increases by about 40%.

Microsoft said Maia 300 is expected to improve AI service performance and reduce data center operating costs. Evercore ISI analysts expect that, as of the first quarter of 2027, Maia chips will account for about 10% of Microsoft's AI chip spending.