By Katie Tarasov,Jonathan Vanian
Publication Date: 2026-03-11 14:00:00
Meta’s 5-gigawatt Hyperion data center under construction in Richland Parish, Louisiana, Jan. 9, 2026.
Courtesy of Meta
Meta on Wednesday revealed four custom, in-house chips tailored for artificial intelligence-related tasks as part of the company’s massive data center expansion plans.
The specialized silicon is part of the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator, or MTIA, family of chips, which it publicly revealed for the first time in 2023 before unveiling a second-generation version in 2024.
Meta Vice President of Engineering Yee Jiun Song told CNBC that by designing custom chips, which are then manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor, the social media giant can squeeze more price per performance across its data center fleet rather than relying on only vendors.
“This also provides us with, with more diversity in terms of silicon supply, and insulates us from price changes to some extent,” Song said. “This is a little bit more leverage.”
The first new chip, MTIA 300, was deployed a few weeks ago and is intended to help train smaller AI models that underpin Meta’s core ranking and recommendation tasks, Song said. These kinds of tasks include showing people relevant content and online ads within the company’s family of apps like Facebook and Instagram.
The upcoming chips — MTIA 400, MTIA 450 and MTIA 500 — are intended for more cutting-edge generative AI-related inference tasks like creating images and videos based on people’s written prompts. The chips will not be used for…
