Microsoft (ticker symbol: MSFT) is working on a new custom network card designed to boost the performance of its Maia AI server chip and is expected to reduce its reliance on chip design firm Nvidia (ticker symbol: NVDA).。

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been assigned to co-start network equipment company Juniper Networks (ticker: JNPR.N) 's Pradeep Sindhu leads the research and development of this network card。It's worth noting that Microsoft bought Fungible, a server chip startup founded by Sindhu, last year.。

The new network card is similar to Nvidia's ConnectX-7 card, which is sold by chip developers along with their graphics processing units (GPUs).。Although the device may take more than a year to develop, if successful, it will hopefully reduce the time it takes OpenAI to train models on Microsoft servers, while reducing costs.。

Microsoft has not yet responded on the matter.。Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in artificial intelligence technology and integrated it into various products to gain a strong position in the competition for artificial intelligence software sales。

In November, Microsoft introduced the Maia 100 chip, designed to run large language models and support artificial intelligence computing.。