The parent company of Facebook, Meta, is testing its first internally designed AI training chip to decrease its reliance on providers like NVIDIA and manage its huge infrastructure costs.
Meta has launched tests for its first in-house AI training chip as part of its significant spending plans for the year, aiming to justify the $65 billion budget for 2025, primarily for AI infrastructure. The company intends to rely less on external suppliers like NVIDIA in the long run.
The social media giant has completed the first "tape-out" of the chip, marking a critical development stage that begins small-scale testing before factory production. Meta is collaborating with Taiwanese manufacturer TSMC to produce the chip, which aims for greater energy efficiency compared to traditional GPUs used for AI workloads. Meta executives plan to start using their own chips by 2026 to train their AI systems.
