Meta begins production of its in-house 'Iris' AI chip in September
Meta will start manufacturing Iris — the latest of four in-house MTIA data-center chips it designed with Broadcom and TSMC builds — in September, after a six-week test run turned up no major issues, real progress for a silicon effort that had floundered for half a decade. The chip is aimed at cutting Meta's compute bill and loosening its dependence on Nvidia and AMD GPUs as it races to reach 14 gigawatts of AI computing by 2027 on a $145B infrastructure budget.
Source: cnbc.com ↗
adopting the latest GPUs at a firm as large as Meta has been a heavy lift, and it has cost us time
Meta internal memo
Why this matters
- → Meta reduces GPU dependency and compute costs through in-house silicon
- → Accelerates AI infrastructure buildout to 14 gigawatts by 2027
- → Signals viable alternative to Nvidia/AMD dominance in AI chips
Silicon independence