Weeks after Nvidia and AMD deals, Meta enters custom AI chip club with Google, Microsoft

Facebook-parent company Meta is the latest tech giant to announce that it is working on custom chips to tackle AI tasks – training and inference. The social media powerhouse has revealed a suite of four in-house AI chips designed to power its massive data centre expansion. With this move, Meta is now placed alongside rivals like Google, Microsoft and Amazon, who have all developed their own specialised chips to reduce their reliance on expensive and supply-hit hardware from vendors like Nvidia and AMD.

Meta is moving fast as the company plans to release new versions of its Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) chips every six months.