Meta, Broadcom and LlamaCon
Meta is hosting its LlamaCon event this week even as it locks in a big chip deal with Broadcom, committing to at least 1GW of AI‑chip capacity starting now and extending the partnership through 2029 ( ). Coverage says the deal begins with more than 1GW of MTIA processors built on a 2‑nanometer process and represents a multi‑year capacity commitment (thenextweb.com).
Meta is opening LlamaCon this week while locking in a chip partnership with Broadcom that runs through 2029. (broadcom.com) Broadcom said on April 14 that it will supply technology for Meta’s Meta Training and Inference Accelerator chips, with an initial commitment of more than 1 gigawatt and a longer rollout planned over several years. (broadcom.com) Coverage of the deal says the first wave centers on Meta Training and Inference Accelerator processors built on a 2-nanometer manufacturing process, alongside Broadcom work on packaging and networking. (thenextweb.com) (businesstoday.in) Meta Training and Inference Accelerator is Meta’s in-house artificial intelligence chip program, built to handle the math behind training models and serving answers inside Meta’s apps and data centers. Meta said on March 11 that it was expanding custom silicon for recommendation and generative artificial intelligence workloads. (about.fb.com) LlamaCon is Meta’s developer event for its Llama family of large language models, and last year’s first LlamaCon was used to announce grant winners and product updates around the open-model ecosystem. Meta said the 2025 event came a little more than two years after Llama launched. (about.fb.com 1) (about.fb.com 2) The timing ties Meta’s software push to a hardware supply plan. Reuters reported on April 14 that the agreement covers several generations of custom artificial intelligence processors as Meta races to add computing capacity for features across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and its broader artificial intelligence products. (usnews.com) Meta has been spreading those infrastructure bets across suppliers. Its newsroom listed a long-term artificial intelligence infrastructure agreement with Advanced Micro Devices on February 24, a partnership with Nvidia on February 17, and a March 24 Arm data-center silicon announcement. (about.fb.com) The Broadcom deal also came with a governance change. CNBC reported that Broadcom Chief Executive Hock Tan will leave Meta’s board after two years of service as the companies deepen their commercial relationship. (cnbc.com) Broadcom called the first 1-gigawatt commitment the opening phase of a sustained multi-gigawatt rollout. That leaves Meta heading into LlamaCon with a message that its open-model event and its data-center buildout are moving on the same schedule. (broadcom.com)
