Meta Platforms has unveiled a roadmap for four new in-house AI chips, marking the company's latest move to expand its data centers and reduce reliance on third-party chip manufacturers. The new chips are part of Meta's Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) program.
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Meta Platforms has unveiled plans for four new in-house AI chips as part of its Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) program. The first chip, MTIA 300, is already powering ranking and recommendation systems, while the others will be rolled out this year and in 2027.
- Meta unveils roadmap for four new AI chips as part of its MTIA program
- First chip, MTIA 300, is currently powering ranking and recommendation systems
- Upcoming chips focus on generative AI inference tasks
- Meta plans to release new chips at six-month intervals due to rapid data center expansion
- Company expects capital spending between $115 billion and $135 billion this year
The first chip, the MTIA 300, is already in use powering the company's ranking and recommendation systems. The other three chips—MTIA 400, MTIA 450, and MTIA 500—will be rolled out this year and in 2027. The final two chips are designed to perform inference tasks, which involve AI models responding to customer queries and requests.
Meta's vice-president of engineering, Yee Jiun Song, emphasized the growing demand for inference capabilities. 'We see inference demand exploding at the moment and that’s what we’re focused on,' Song said in an interview. The company has had success with inference chips but has struggled with its long-time ambitions to make a generative AI training chip capable of building large models.
Beginning with the MTIA 400, Meta has designed an entire system around the chips, which is roughly the size of several server racks and includes liquid cooling. The company plans to release new chips at six-month intervals due to its rapid expansion of data centers used to run apps like Instagram and Facebook.
Meta expects capital spending between $115 billion and $135 billion this year. The company contracts Broadcom for some design elements and uses Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to fabricate the processors. In February, Meta signed big deals with Nvidia and AMD to buy tens of billions of dollars worth of chips.
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