Meta unveils plans for batch of in-house AI chips
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 11 : Meta Platforms on Wednesday unveiled a roadmap of four new chips that the company is making in-house, as it rapidly expands its data centers.Like many big tech companies such as Alphabet and Microsoft, Meta has invested heavily in building a team that can design chips in-house in add
SAN FRANCISCO, March 11 : Meta Platforms on Wednesday unveiled a roadmap of four new chips that the company is making in-house, as it rapidly expands its data centers.
Like many big tech companies such as Alphabet and Microsoft, Meta has invested heavily in building a team that can design chips in-house in addition to purchasing off-the-shelf products made by Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices.
Making chips designed to tackle the specific types of data crunching Meta requires can lead to designs that use less energy and at a better cost.
The new chips are part of the company's Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) program and the first of the new chips called the MTIA 300 is in use powering the company's ranking and recommendation systems. The other three will be rolled out this year and in 2027, with the final two chips, the MTIA 450 and 500 being designed to perform inference, the process when an AI model such as the one that powers the ChatGPT app responds to customer queries and requests.
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