Meta to deploy custom-designed Artemis AI processor alongside commercial GPUs

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Meta is set to deploy its new custom-designed artificial intelligence (AI) processors in its datacenters this year, reports Reuters. The new system-on-chips are codenamed Artemis and are designed to support Meta's aggressive AI product rollout across its platforms and devices. Meanwhile, they are set to reduce Meta's reliance on Nvidia GPUs and control costs. 

"We see our internally developed accelerators to be highly complementary to commercially available GPUs in delivering the optimal mix of performance and efficiency on Meta-specific workloads," a spokesperson for Meta told Reuters, confirming the plan to deploy the company's own chips. 

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  • SirErr
    Does Meta work with any design house for this Artemis processor?
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  • bit_user
    SirErr said:
    Does Meta work with any design house for this Artemis processor?
    According to this, the CPU cores in their 1st generation silicon are RISC-V cores licensed from Andes:
    https://www.semianalysis.com/p/meta-custom-silicon-whats-old-is
    However, it's pretty clear that the backend processing elements aren't from Andes. So, those would either be in-house or licensed from elsewhere.

    That article doesn't cover details of the new silicon, at least in the non-subscriber "free" section.
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