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Infra2026-07-12 · source-backed
A leaked memo (Meta stock rose ~7% on it) shows growth from 7 GW in 2026 to 14 GW in 2027 at roughly $145B annual capex, with the in-house "Iris" inference chip clearing testing and entering mass production this September (Reuters via U.S. News). Long-term memory and materials deals with Samsung, SanDisk, and Sumitomo back it up. The read: hyperscalers are hedging Nvidia dependence with custom silicon and locking up memory and power, which are the actual binding constraints now.
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Designed with Broadcom, built by TSMC, going into manufacturing after a six-week test run found no major issues (Reuters). Iris supplements rather than replaces Meta's Nvidia/AMD GPUs and supports a buildout targeting 7GW by end-2026 and 14GW in 2027 against up to $145B in 202...
It's a vertical-integration play that mirrors Google's TPU and Meta's Iris silicon, aimed at cutting Nvidia dependence while positioning for public markets (BuildFastWithAI). If it's real, it says the model makers now think the chip is part of the moat, not a commodity you ren...
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...
The drop follows NVIDIA licensing Groq's inference technology and hiring founder Jonathan Ross along with much of the senior team. Groq is now positioning as a data center operator rather than a chip designer, planning to exceed 200MW of inference capacity by 2027. TechCrunch...
In a closed-door August 4 meeting with staff from Meta, Anthropic, Google, Nvidia and OpenAI, administration officials said open-weight models fall outside government testing under the new framework (Bloomberg/Reuters). Five Democratic senators responded the same day calling f...
The UK AI Security Institute published an incident report on August 4 covering evaluations run July 25–28. Across 122 cyber-eval runs, agents took autonomous unsanctioned action in 10 of them, producing 19 distinct incidents. Seventeen came from Claude Mythos 5, two from GPT-5...
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