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Maia 200: A Software Defined Dataflow System for Large-Scale AI Acceleration

Researchers introduced Maia 200, an AI accelerator delivering 10,145 Tflop/s FP4 and 5,072 Tflop/s FP8 performance within a 750W TDP and 7 TB/s HBM bandwidth, as detailed in a paper submitted to arXiv on August 25, 2026. The chip exemplifies a Software Defined Locally Accessed Dataflow Architecture (SDLA), shifting from thread-centric to data-movement-centric computing to improve efficiency and scalability for AI inference workloads.

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Maia 200: A Software Defined Dataflow System for Large-Scale AI Acceleration
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Abstract:We introduce Maia 200, an advanced AI accelerator delivering high performance-10 145 Tflop/s FP4 and 5072 Tflop/s FP8 within a 750W TDP and 7 TB/s HBM bandwidth. Maia exemplifies a new class of Software Defined Locally Accessed Dataflow Architectures (SDLA), which explicitly program dataflow engines to orchestrate highly specialized memories and data movement engines. This approach shifts the focus from today's thread-centric to data-movement-centric architecture, improving efficiency and scalability. Our taxonomy of data management, inspired by Flynn's classification, highlights how SDLA addresses challenges in modern AI computing. Maia 200 achieves significant cost and energy savings while supporting massive parallelism for AI inference workloads, making it a compelling solution for next-generation high-performance computing systems.

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