{"id":392313,"date":"2026-04-14T22:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/392313\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:37:09","slug":"meta-inks-deal-with-broadcom-for-custom-ai-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/392313\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta inks deal with Broadcom for custom AI chips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

April 14 (Reuters) – Meta will work with chip designer Broadcom to produce several generations of custom artificial intelligence<\/a> processors under an \u200cexpanded deal as the social media giant races to build \u200cout the computing capacity needed to power AI features across its apps.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s announcement extends the \u200btie-up until 2029 and includes an initial commitment of over one gigawatt of computing<\/a> capacity, enough to power roughly 750,000 U.S. homes on average.<\/p>\n

As part of the deal, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan would leave Meta’s board and move \u200cto an advisory role on \u2060its custom chip strategy, the companies said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n

As AI drives a surge in computing demand, big \u2060technology companies such as Meta, Google and Amazon are designing their own chips to reduce reliance on Nvidia<\/a>‘s costly processors.<\/p>\n

That custom chip boom has made \u200bBroadcom one \u200bof the biggest winners of generative \u200bAI. The company works with \u200cclients to develop custom processors and supplies infrastructure software.<\/p>\n

Its shares were up 3.5% in extended trading, while those of Meta were little changed.<\/p>\n

The tie-up helps “build out the massive computing foundation we need to deliver personal superintelligence to billions of people,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.<\/p>\n

The company, which last month \u200cunveiled a roadmap of four new chips, \u200bsaid the initial capacity commitment with Broadcom \u200bwas “the first phase of a \u200bsustained, multi-gigawatt rollout.”<\/p>\n

Broadcom’s Ethernet networking technology will also be \u200cused to connect Meta’s rapidly growing clusters \u200bof AI computers.<\/p>\n

The \u200bfirst chip from Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) program, called the MTIA 300, already powers Meta’s ranking and recommendation systems, with three \u200bmore due through 2027. \u200cThe later generations are designed for inference, the process by which \u200bAI models respond to user queries.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Juby Babu in \u200bMexico City; Editing by Maju Samuel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 14 (Reuters) – Meta will work with chip designer Broadcom to produce several generations of custom artificial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,4627,186729,118588,85,186730,46,1430,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-392313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-broadcom","12":"tag-custom-chip","13":"tag-custom-processors","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-initial-commitment","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-meta","18":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}