Facebook-parent Meta signs long-term AI chip deal with AMD: All details here

Facebook-parent Meta has signed a deal with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) for use of its AI chips in its data centres. The deal involves deploying up to 6 gigawatts of AI computing power to the social media giant’s next generation of AI infrastructure across multiple generations of AMD Instinct GPUs.

For AMD, it is a historic win, positioning the company as the primary alternative to Nvidia’s dominant grip on the AI market. AMD has previously signed a similar deal with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. This deal comes just days after Meta doubled down on its partnership with Nvidia.“We are proud to expand our strategic partnership with Meta as they push the boundaries of AI at unprecedented scale. 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,” said Lisa Su, chair and CEO, AMD.“We’re excited to form a long-term partnership with AMD to deploy efficient inference compute and deliver personal superintelligence. This is an important step for Meta as we diversify our compute. I expect AMD to be an important partner for many years to come,” said Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta, which has long been a customer of AMD.

How Meta’s deal with AMD is ‘different’

While Meta recently committed to using millions of Nvidia’s Blackwell and Rubin chips, this new pact with AMD is different.

AMD will be providing customised GPUs that will be specifically optimised for Meta’s unique AI workloads.“This agreement expands on the companies’ existing strategic partnership and aligns roadmaps across silicon, systems and software to deliver AI platforms purpose-built for Meta’s workloads. The first deployment will use a custom AMD Instinct GPU based on the MI450 architecture to deliver AI platforms that are optimised for Meta’s workloads at gigawatt-scale,” AMD said.Shipments supporting the first gigawatt deployment are scheduled to begin in the second half of 2026 powered by the custom AMD Instinct MI450-based GPU and 6th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs, codenamed “Venice,” running ROCm software and built on the AMD Helios rack-scale architecture. AMD Helios was developed jointly by AMD and Meta through the Open Compute Project to enable scalable, rack-level AI infrastructure.In addition to the collaboration on GPUs, AMD and Meta are expanding their AMD EPYC processor partnership. Meta already deploys millions of AMD EPYC CPUs and significant deployments of AMD Instinct MI300 and MI350 series GPUs across their global infrastructure. Meta will be a lead customer for 6th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs, codenamed “Venice,” and “Verano,” a next-generation EPYC processor designed with workload-specific optimizations to deliver leadership performance-per-dollar-per-watt.