Meta inks deal to use more Amazon chips
The move comes as the leading cloud providers aim to increase adoption of their homegrown chips amid an industrywide shortage of Nvidia graphics chips.
TL;DR
- Meta will use Amazon-designed Graviton chips for its next generation of AI models.
- Amazon will initially supply Meta with tens of millions of Graviton cores.
- This deal helps Meta amidst a shortage of Nvidia graphics chips.
- The partnership highlights a shift towards CPU-intensive workloads for agentic AI.
- Google is also promoting its homegrown Tensor chips and TPUs.