Meta signs over 1GW self-developed AI chip agreement with Broadcom, Broadcom CEO steps down from Meta board to become an advisor

ME News update, April 15 (UTC+8): According to Beating Monitoring, Meta announced it is expanding its partnership with Broadcom. The two sides will jointly develop multiple generations of MTIA (Meta Training and Inference Accelerator) chips. MTIA is Meta’s self-developed AI accelerator, optimized for inference and recommendation systems. Meta announced in March this year that it would develop and deploy four generations of MTIA chips within two years, and the agreement with Broadcom will speed up this process. The agreement is based on Broadcom’s XPU platform (a set of technical solutions for customizing AI accelerators) and covers three areas: chip design, advanced packaging, and network interconnection. Broadcom’s Ethernet technology will be used for high-bandwidth communication between Meta’s rapidly expanding AI computing clusters. Zuckerberg said that the initial deployment will exceed 1GW of self-developed chip computing power, and that it will be expanded to the multi-gigawatt (several GW) level afterward. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said this is just “the start of a continuous multi-generation roadmap.” Due to the expanded scale of the cooperation, Hock Tan, who had served as a member of Meta’s board of directors for two years, will step down from the board and move into an advisory role, providing guidance for Meta’s self-developed chip roadmap and infrastructure investment. (Source: BlockBeats)