Meta starts AI chip production in September, double capacity

Meta Platforms plans to begin production of its own artificial intelligence chip in September as part of a major push to double its overall computing capacity by 2027, according to internal company information. The move is a key step in the company's strategy to reduce its reliance on external chip suppliers like Nvidia and to lower the enormous costs of powering AI across its services.

The chip, part of the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) line, is designed in-house and tailored for the company's specific AI workloads, which include ranking and recommendation systems for Facebook and Instagram. Testing of the chip was completed in approximately six weeks with no major issues reported, indicating smooth progress for the initiative. Meta is working with Broadcom on the chip's design and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) for manufacturing.

This production milestone is part of a broader, accelerated roadmap. The company unveiled four new MTIA chips in March and plans to release new versions approximately every six months through 2027, a faster pace than the annual release cycle common in the industry. The newer chips are expected to be among the first...