Meta reveals Artemis chip to boost AI, cut Nvidia ties – Report

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is preparing to deploy a new version of a custom semiconductor chip in its data centers to support the development of artificial intelligence (AI).

According to a Reuters report, an internal document revealed plans for a second-generation in-house chip, known internally as “Artemis,” as Meta tries to boost its computing capabilities to handle more powerful generative AI products.

The Artemis chip is similar to the previous one and is only “intervention”, in which models use algorithms to create judgments and respond to user requests.

The plans were confirmed by a company representative who said the updated chip will be available in 2024 and will work with “hundreds of thousands of off-the-shelf GPUs” the company has been buying.

We find our in-house built-in sinks to be very complementary to commercially available GPUs to deliver the best performance and efficiency on meta-intensive workloads.

Last month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that by the end of the year, the company plans to buy 350,000 flagship “H100” processors from Nvidia.

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A new chip of this type, manufactured by Meta itself, will help the company reduce production and energy costs and reduce its dependence on Nvidia chips.

Nvidia is currently one of the market leaders in the production of semiconductor chips used to power high-end AI models. In November, the company reported record revenue of $18 billion in Q3 revenue, for which it cited generative AI as the main driver.

The company's market capitalization now tops $1.56 trillion, and it plans to expand its offerings in China with a new chip and develop a center in Vietnam.

However, Meta is not alone in thinking of manufacturing its own chips in-house. Last October, OpenAI, the creator of the popular chatbot ChatGPT, said it was weighing the acquisition of a chipmaker to make its own AI chips.

Later, in January 2024, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company was considering raising funds to create a series of semiconductor manufacturing plants.

In the year In November, Microsoft released its own chip called Maia, which it says is the “final piece of the puzzle” for AI tasks and infrastructure systems designed for generative AI.

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