By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2026-04-15 00:06:00
Meta Platforms Inc. today 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 1 gigawatt’s worth of its Meta Training and Inference Accelerators, a custom-designed chip for AI workloads that Meta runs in its own data centers. Companies use “gigawatts” to measure the scale of AI hardware orders based on the total electrical power required to run them, as opposed to a simple count of individual chips. Ultimately, the extended partnership envisions Meta deploying multiple gigawatts of the new 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 two-nanometer process. The chipmaker’s stock rose more than…