Meta iends to buy the RIVOS startup, which works in the design and manufacture of RISC-V chips. The purpose of this purchase is to strengthen the iernal chip design teams and reduce the dependence on Nvidia chips.
According to Bloomberg, the agreeme has not yet been publicly announced, but sources of the magazine have confirmed it. RIVOS is a start-up company that focuses on designing GPUs and artificial ielligence accelerators based on RISC-V opening. The company’s iellectual property includes SOCs and PCIE accelerators.
RIVOS enhances meta -dedicated chip design activities
Meta has been working on the developme of its iernal and custom artificial ielligence accelerators for many years, a project known as Meta Training and Inference Accelerator. The chips of this project are designed in collaboration with Broadcom and are probably based on RISC-V and are manufactured in TSMC chip factories. The accelerator has gone through a trial phase in March and is said to be used in meta dataceers with GPUs and accelerators of NVIDIA artificial ielligence.
It is unclear what the final agreeme with RIVOS is. The startup has recely announced its value of $ 5 billion in a period of financing, which is likely to put its proposed price in a 2 to 4 -digit number.
RIVOS may also not accept iegration io the Meta’s domestic developme team. Meanwhile, Meta apparely pursues such a goal for its new purchases. Of course, the deal has not yet been finalized and the details may change or may not be done at all.
If Meta can buy RIVOS, the technology gia will be able to produce one of the most famous RISC-V chips that the world has ever seen. The RISC-V standard has not yet eered US dataceers. With the developme of dedicated chips, Meta will have the opportunity to reduce its dependence on the Nvidia H200 chips. Openai has also launched a similar plan for proprietary design developme, and the chip is expected to be unveiled in year 6.
