Meta Transitions to Its Own Processors: About the MTIA 500 Series

Meta has announced a large-scale strategy to develop its own infrastructure, the goal of which is to move Facebook and Instagram to operate on proprietary processors. Meta presented a plan to release four new chips from the MTIA series (Meta Training and Inference Accelerator).

The development program is being carried out in partnership with Broadcom, while the production of the lineup is handled by TSMC.

Processor Features

The new processors are based on the open RISC-V architecture.

The company is already deploying the first chip in the lineup, MTIA 300. It is integrated into recommendation systems that generate personalized user feeds.

Meta emphasizes that highly specialized solutions demonstrate significantly higher performance in inference tasks compared to general-purpose processors.

Roadmap for the Lineup

Meta plans to release new chip versions every six months. The update roadmap is as follows:

1. MTIA 400: The processor has already passed the testing phase and is being prepared for deployment in data centers. Its performance is comparable to leading commercial solutions on the market.
2. MTIA 450: The next model, whose main feature will be a doubled capacity of high-speed memory.
3. MTIA 500: The final chip in the current lineup with improved low-precision data processing, which is critical for neural network performance.

To stabilize processor operation, the company has developed a dedicated computing system for each chip that occupies several server racks and includes liquid cooling technology.

Infrastructure Investments and Energy Efficiency

The decision to develop proprietary processors is usually made not only to improve services but also to reduce energy supply costs.

However, this lineup still depends on external suppliers: the company purchases equipment from NVIDIA and AMD worth tens of billions of dollars.

In 2026, Meta’s total budget for AI infrastructure development will amount to about $135 billion.