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

ME News, April 15 (UTC+8). According to Beating Monitoring, Meta announced an expansion of its cooperation 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 this agreement with Broadcom will accelerate that process.

The agreement is based on Broadcom’s XPU platform (a set of technical solutions for customizing AI accelerators), covering 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 the first phase of deployment will exceed 1GW of computing power from Meta’s self-developed chips, and will be expanded to the multi-GW level afterward. Broadcom CEO Chen Fuyang (Hock Tan) said this is only “the beginning of a continuous multi-generation roadmap.”

Due to the expanded scale of the cooperation, Chen Fuyang, who previously served as a member of Meta’s board for two years, will step down from the board and take on an advisory role to provide guidance for Meta’s self-developed chip roadmap and infrastructure investment. (Source: BlockBeats)