{"id":171141,"date":"2025-09-30T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171141\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:02:09","slug":"meta-is-said-to-acquire-chips-startup-rivos-to-push-ai-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171141\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Is Said to Acquire Chips Startup Rivos to Push AI Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/META:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Meta Platforms Inc.<\/a> is acquiring chips startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/2301525D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Rivos Inc.<\/a>, according to a person familiar with the deal, part of an effort to bolster its internal semiconductor development and control more of its infrastructure for artificial intelligence work.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Rivos is developing its own graphics processing unit, known as a GPU, which is the chip that powers most AI-related work. Meta already has a team internally building chips for AI development, known as the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator, but the company still spends billions each year on GPUs from external partners, including market-leading Nvidia Corp. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta Platforms Inc. is acquiring chips startup Rivos Inc., according to a person familiar with the deal, part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,13514,2339,464,76913,63494,4140,76912,1208,86,56,54,55,11878],"class_list":["post-171141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-august","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-infrastructure","tag-mark-elliot-zuckerberg","tag-meta-platforms-inc-class-a","tag-nvidia-corp","tag-rivos-inc","tag-startups","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-valuation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}