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Meta to Use Custom AMD MI400 Accelerators with 144GB HBM4 for Select Workloads

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Tom's Hardware ·

Meta plans to deploy a custom version of AMD's Instinct MI400 accelerators featuring 144GB of HBM4 memory, targeting specific workloads. The move aims to reduce costs by sacrificing versatility. The report suggests Meta is diversifying its AI hardware supply chain beyond Nvidia.

Meridian48 take
Meta's custom AMD chip deal underscores the growing pressure on big tech to cut AI infrastructure costs, but the limited memory may restrict use cases to less demanding inference tasks.
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Meta to use custom AMD Instinct MI400 accelerators with 144GB of HBM4 for select workloads, report claims — could dramatically reduce cost at the expense of versatility →
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