By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2026-04-15 00:06:00
Meta Platforms Inc. has announced a new deal with Broadcom Inc., extending a partnership that already sees the two companies work together on the design of the social media giant’s in-house artificial intelligence accelerators.
The company said in an announcement that it is committing to an initial deployment of one gigawatt of its Meta Training and Inference Accelerators, a custom-designed chip for AI workloads that Meta runs in its own data centers. Ultimately though, the extended partnership envisions Meta deploying multiple gigawatts of the chips, which are based on Broadcom’s technology.
Broadcom stressed in a separate announcement that the new MTIA chips will be the first custom silicon for the AI industry that uses a 2-nanometer process. The chipmaker’s stock rose more than 3% in late trading today after the news was published. It’s now up more than 10% in the year to date, outpacing the broader S&P 500 Index, which has gained just 2% over the same…
