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Meta's 4-Generation Custom Silicon Roadmap.

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Four chips detailed: MTIA 300 (in production), 400 (lab testing), 450 and 500 (GenAI inference, 2027). From 300 to 500: HBM bandwidth up 4.5x, compute FLOPS up 25x. New chips every six months. The most aggressive custom silicon roadmap from any hyperscaler, reducing NVIDIA/AMD dependency. Meta Engineering

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