Meta taps Broadcom to power AI across apps

Meta Platforms expanded a partnership with Broadcom to jointly develop multiple generations of custom chips, designed to power AI across the social media giant’s apps and services. Meta explained it will work with Broadcom on chip design, advanced packaging and networking to build out the “massive computing foundation” needed to deliver real-time AI experiences to billions of people. It has committed to an initial deployment of 1 gigawatt of Meta Training and Inference Accelerators (MTIA), with plans to deploy multiple gigawatts of chips in the future, based on Broadcom technology. The work will be built on Broadcom’s XPU platform, a technology creating custom AI accelerators, while also using the chip company’s ethernet technologies to enable high-bandwidth networking across Meta’s expanding AI compute clusters. Meta said it has pursued a strategy to develop multiple generations of next-generation MTIA chips, matching the right processor “to achieve the best mix of performance and total cost of ownership”. It recently announced plans to build four new-generations of MTIA chips within the next two years, supporting ranking, recommendations and generative AI workloads. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed the partnership will give it “greater performance and efficiency for everything we’re building”. Tan leaves board Given the scale of the expanded partnership, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan will leave Meta’s board of directors and move into an advisory role for the company. Meta said Tan will provide guidance on its custom silicon roadmap and help shape the future on infrastructure investments. He had served on the board for two years. The post Meta taps Broadcom to power AI across apps appeared first on Mobile World Live .