Meta has confirmed an expanded partnership with Broadcom to develop custom silicon to power the social media giant’s long-term AI ambitions.
In a statement, Meta revealed that it will work with Broadcom to design and build multiple generations” of its Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) chips.
The MTIA chip is Meta’s purpose-built accelerator optimized for inference at scale, and the company recently unveiled plans to develop four new generations over the next two years. This new deal is designed to support this effort.
The rapid rollout of the chips — the industry’s first 2-nanometer AI compute accelerators — is made possible by Broadcom’s XPU (Custom Accelerator) platform. According to a separate statement from Broadcom, using the platform as a foundation enables the companies “to tightly couple logic, memory, and high-speed I/O for current deployments.” At the same time, it establishes an adaptable blueprint that enables future iterations over the coming years.
The initial agreement includes a commitment by Broadcom to provide more than 1gigawatt of compute capacity. Broadcom said this is only the initial phase of a “sustained, multi-gigawatt rollout” that aims to deliver on Meta’s long-term goal of delivering personal superintelligence to billions of people around the world using apps such as Meta social media platforms WhatsApp, Instagram and Threads
While no financial details were disclosed, the sums involved are likely to run into hundreds of billions of dollars due to the deal’s vast scale.
Meta has made no secret of its desire to build up its AI infrastructure, committing $135 billion in 2025 alone, while reducing its reliance on third-party suppliers such as Nvidia, and this latest deal underscores that ongoing effort.
“Meta is partnering with Broadcom across chip design, packaging and networking to build out the massive computing foundation we need,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement. “This partnership will give us greater performance and efficiency for everything we’re building.”
As part of the deal, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan will relinquish his position on the Meta board, and instead move into an advisory role.
The extended alliance constitutes another big win for Broadcom. Earlier this month, the vendor agreed to a significant deal said to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars to supply 3.5 gigawatts of next-generation Google TPU chips to Anthropic. At the same time, Broadcom also revealed that it had made a separate agreement with Google to design and supply future TPU chips.
