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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AMD's custom Instinct MI450-based AI accelerator for Meta will use three times less memory than the fully-fledged Instinct MI455X and will be optimized primarily for recommendation systems operated by Facebook and other social platforms, according to SemiAnalysis. If the report is accurate, it is reasonable to expect Meta to keep using Nvidia hardware for training frontier AI models and running inference.

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