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Meta and AMD’s Multibillion-Dollar Deal Is All About the AI Chips

Meta and AMD’s Multibillion-Dollar Deal Is All About the AI Chips

Meta is joining OpenAI as one of the major tech companies to take a stake in chipmaker AMD, as part of an AI hardware buying frenzy. Meta and AMD on Tuesday announced a partnership that will involve CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s tech giant buying billions of dollars’ worth of AMD Instinct GPUs in order to fuel its ambitions to build out AI offerings across Meta platforms, including Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. In a release, Meta described the deal as “multi-year,” and said the AI purchase will provide Meta with up to 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs, “the silicon computing technology used to support modern AI models.”  According to the US Department of Energy, a single gigawatt (1 billion watts) is equivalent to nearly 2,000 large solar panels or 100 million LED bulbs. In AMD’s version of the announcement, CEO Lisa Su said, “We are proud to expand our strategic partnership with Meta as they push the boundaries of AI at unprecedented scale.” As part of the deal, Meta will take a 10% stake in AMD. AMD, …

CES 2026: Everything revealed, from Nvidia’s debuts to AMD’s new chips to Razer’s AI oddities 

CES 2026: Everything revealed, from Nvidia’s debuts to AMD’s new chips to Razer’s AI oddities 

CES 2026 is in full swing in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after a packed couple of days occupied by press conferences from the likes of Nvidia, Sony, and AMD and previews from Sunday’s Unveiled event.  As has been the case for the past two years at CES, AI is at the forefront of many companies’ messaging, though the hardware upgrades and oddities that have long defined the annual event still have their place on the show floor and in adjacent announcements. We’ll be collecting the biggest reveals and surprises here, though you can still catch the spur-of-the-moment reactions and thoughts from our team on the ground via our live blog right here.  Let’s dive right in, starting with some of Monday’s biggest players.  Nvidia reveals AI model for autonomous vehicles, showcases Rubin architecture Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered an expectedly lengthy presentation at CES, taking a victory lap for the company’s AI-driven successes, setting the stage for 2026, and yes, hanging out with some robots.  The Rubin computing architecture, which has been developed to meet the increasing computation demands that AI …