Meta is set to acquire RISC-V chip startup Rivos, in an effort to shore up Meta’s own internal chip development teams and move past reliance on Nvidia GPU hardware. According to data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/meta-is-said-to-acquire-chips-startup-rivos-to-push-ai-effort?embedded-checkout=true” data-url=”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/meta-is-said-to-acquire-chips-startup-rivos-to-push-ai-effort?embedded-checkout=true” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Bloomberg, the deal has not yet been made public, but has been confirmed by sources.
Rivos is a “stealth” chip startup, focused on designing GPUs and AI accelerators on the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/risc-v” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/risc-v”>RISC-V open standard. The company’s IP includes SoCs and PCIe accelerators.
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