Microsoft has bought greater than twice as many Nvidia Hopper chips as any of its biggest competitors this 12 months.
The tech giant purchased 485,000 Nvidia Hopper chips throughout 2024, based on reports from The Financial Timesciting data from technology consultancy Omdia. For comparison, Meta bought 224,000 copies of the identical Nvidia flagship chip this 12 months. Microsoft's chip purchase in 2024 greater than tripled the variety of Nvidia chips the corporate bought in 2023.
Microsoft can be constructing its own custom AI chips called Maia, which it announced at its Ignite conference in late 2023.
The company has really delved heavily into AI this 12 months. Microsoft deepened its partnership with OpenAI, participating in the corporate's whopping $6.6 billion funding round in October. The company also signed a deal to reopen the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in September and purchased all of the facility the plant generated for 20 years to power its data centers.
