Meta and AMD announced a partnership Tuesday to grow Meta’s AI infrastructure with AMD’s Instinct graphics processor chips. File Photo by Terry Schmitt/UPI | License Photo
Meta and AMD announced a partnership on Tuesday to grow Meta’s AI infrastructure with its Instinct graphics processor chips.
The companies agreed on a multi-year deal that would see AMD deliver up to six gigawatts of its AMD Instinct GPUs. The first delivery of processing chips is slated for the second half of the year.
“This multi-year, multi-generation collaboration across Instinct GPUs, EPYC CPUs and rack-scale AI systems aligns our roadmaps to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient infrastructure optimized for Meta’s workloads, accelerating one of the industry’s largest AI deployments and placing AMD at the center of the global AI buildout,” Lisa Su, chair and CEO of AMD, said in a statement.
The total value of the deal between Meta and AMD was not disclosed in the press release.
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg said he expects the partnership with AMD to continue “for many years to come.”
AMD is giving Meta a “performance-based warrant” for up to 160 million shares of AMD common stock that will be based on delivery of Instinct GPU shipments. This represents about a 10% share of the company.
Meta has plans to construct 26 data centers in the United States and four more abroad. Last week it announced an agreement with Nvidia to use millions of its chips for its AI data centers.
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President Donald Trump speaks alongside Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Thursday. The Trump administration has announced the finalization of rules that revoke the EPA’s ability to regulate climate pollution by ending the endangerment finding that determined six greenhouse gases could be categorized as dangerous to human health. Photo by Will Oliver/UPI | License Photo
