Meta’s new AI chips will begin production in September
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Meta is set to begin manufacturing its latest custom AI chips in September to reduce reliance on third-party GPU providers.Summary
Meta is moving forward with the production of its new AI-specific chips, part of the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) program, starting in September. By designing its own modular chips in partnership with Broadcom and manufacturing them through TSMC, the company aims to reduce its heavy dependency on costly GPUs from providers like Nvidia and AMD. These chips are primarily intended to power recommendation algorithms and broader AI workloads, as Meta continues to invest billions in securing massive computing capacity to support its evolving AI infrastructure.
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