[DigitalToday reporter Chi-gyu Hwang (황치규)] Meta has signed a new multibillion-dollar chip supply deal with Nvidia, CNBC reported on Feb. 17.
The deal includes Nvidia’s next-generation GPUs as well as Grace, a standalone CPU.
Meta plans to invest $135 billion in AI in 2026, and the deal is expected to account for a large portion of that.
Meta also became the first company to deploy Nvidia Grace CPUs separately at scale, rather than providing them with GPUs in servers.
The Grace CPU is optimised for handling AI inference and agent tasks. Meta plans to introduce the next-generation Vera CPU by 2027.
The deal is part of a $600 billion project in which Meta plans to build 30 AI data centres in the United States through 2028. Large-scale AI data centres are being built in Ohio and Louisiana, and they include Nvidia networking technology and security features.
Meta is considering chips from AMD and Google in addition to Nvidia, and is also developing its own silicon processors.
Chi-gyu Hwang
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