Meta Platforms on Wednesday unveiled a roadmap of four new chips that the company is making in-house, as it rapidly expands its data centers.
Like many big tech companies such as Alphabet and Microsoft, Meta has invested heavily in building a team that can design chips in-house in addition to purchasing off-the-shelf products made by Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices.
Making chips designed to tackle the specific types of data crunching Meta requires can lead to designs that use less energy and at a better cost.
The new chips are part of the…
