{"id":26445,"date":"2026-04-14T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/26445\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:07:31","slug":"meta-and-amd-agree-to-blockbuster-chip-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/26445\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta and AMD Agree to Blockbuster Chip Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta hasn’t only got eyes for Nvidia \u2014 it just signed a big chip deal with AMD.<\/p>\n

The social network giant has agreed to purchase 6 gigawatts’ worth of AMD’s artificial intelligence chips, the companies said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Meta, which last week doubled down on its partnership with Nvidia<\/a>, said it was entering a multi-year agreement with AMD to support its AI infrastructure buildout.<\/p>\n

It plans to deploy AMD’s custom Instinct GPUs, with shipments expected to start in the second half of 2026, the companies said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

AMD’s stock was up by as much as nearly 12% premarket following the announcement.<\/p>\n

The deal would also allow Meta to purchase up to 10% of AMD’s stock, with the shares vesting based on certain shipping milestones agreed upon by the companies.<\/p>\n

“We’re excited to form a long-term partnership with AMD to deploy efficient inference compute and deliver personal superintelligence,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement. He added that the deal was an important step for Meta as it diversifies the chips it uses to power its AI bets.<\/p>\n

It’s the latest mega-chip deal struck by AMD, with the company agreeing to a multi-year partnership to provide its AI chips to OpenAI<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n

Last week, Meta expanded its partnership with Nvidia<\/a> with a “multigenerational” deal, committing to use millions of Nvidia’s current and next-generation chips for its AI buildout.<\/p>\n

The deals continue to underscore the vast amount of infrastructure companies believe is required to meet AI demand. To put Meta and AMD’s deal in perspective, 1 gigawatt is roughly equivalent to the power needed to run the homes of a midsize city like San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta hasn’t only got eyes for Nvidia \u2014 it just signed a big chip deal with AMD. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[18055,18054,2667,18056,18052,1020,2314,18053,2982,692,994,18050,18051,13981,2468,178],"class_list":{"0":"post-26445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lisa-su","8":"tag-premarket","9":"tag-ai-infrastructure-buildout","10":"tag-amd","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence-chip","12":"tag-blockbuster-chip-deal","13":"tag-company","14":"tag-deal","15":"tag-gigawatt","16":"tag-last-week","17":"tag-lisa-su","18":"tag-meta","19":"tag-nvidia-tie-up","20":"tag-partnership","21":"tag-perspective","22":"tag-stock","23":"tag-tuesday"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116403217564096026","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}