Meta Developed 4 New Chips to Power Its AI and Recommendation Systems

The MTIA processors are the tech giant’s latest attempt to build its own AI hardware, even as it continues spending billions on gear from industry leaders like Nvidia.

Meta announced Wednesday that it has developed four new computer chips that will be used to power generative AI features and content ranking systems within the tech giant's own apps. The hardware will become part of Meta’s existing chip line known as MTIA, or Meta Training and Inference Accelerators.

Meta partnered with Broadcom to develop its latest semiconductors, which are built on top of the open-source RISC-V architecture. They’re being fabricated by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, the world’s leading chip producer.

One of the new MTIA chips, the MTIA 300, is already in production, and Meta says the other three—the MTIA 400, 450, and 500—are expected to ship sometime between early and late 2027. Putting ...