Meta Expands Broadcom Alliance to Build AI Chips
The expanded deal covers multiple generations of MTIA chips and starts with more than 1 gigawatt of deployment capacity.
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Meta has expanded its partnership with Broadcom to co-develop multiple generations of its custom AI chips, signalling a deeper push into building in-house infrastructure as competition around AI compute intensifies.
The collaboration will focus on scaling Meta’s next-generation MTIA (Meta Training and Inference Accelerator) chips, custom silicon designed to support AI workloads across its platforms, particularly for recommendations and generative AI.
The companies will work together on chip design, advanced packaging, and networking, with Broadcom contributing through its XPU platform and Ethernet-based networking technologies.
Meta said it is pursuing a “portfolio approach” to AI hardware, using different types of accelerators depending on workloads to balance performance and cost.
MTIA chips are positioned as a core part of this strategy, especially for inference at scale.
“We are pleased to expand our strategic collaboration with Meta as they pioneer the next frontier of artificial intelligence,” said Hock Tan, President and CEO of Broadcom.
“This initial MTIA deployment is just the beginning of a sustained, multi-generation roadmap to serve the trajectory of massive growth over the next few years that highlights Broadcom’s unmatched leadership in AI networking and the power of our foundational XPU custom accelerator platform.”
The agreement includes an initial deployment commitment exceeding 1 gigawatt (GW) of compute capacity, part of what Meta describes as a longer-term, multi-gigawatt rollout of its custom silicon infrastructure.
“Meta is partnering with Broadcom across chip design, packaging, and networking to build out the massive computing foundation we need to deliver personal superintelligence to billions of people,” said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
“As we roll out more than 1GW of our custom silicon to start and then multiple gigawatts over time, this partnership will give us greater performance and efficiency for everything we’re building,” he said.
Separately, Hock Tan will step down from Meta’s board of directors and transition into an advisory role, where he will provide guidance on the company’s custom silicon roadmap and infrastructure investments.
