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Vertically integrated training hardware will eventually break the Nvidia premium
◆ 75RelevanceOn a story from Meta Engineering1mo ago
As hyperscalers move training in-house, they reduce their dependence on third-party networking and GPU vendors. For founders, this signals a future where compute costs are dictated by utility-scale efficiency rather than hardware scarcity.
Takeaways
- Meta is moving beyond inference to custom silicon for model training.
- On-chip networking aims to solve communication bottlenecks in massive clusters.
- Increased hardware competition will eventually drive down startup compute costs.
Read the original at engineering.fb.com
MTIA 300: Meta’s First Training Chip with Built-in NICs and Communication-Offloading Engines
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