India, July 15 -- According to reports, Meta plans to begin production of a custom AI chip code-named Iris in September as part of a wider effort to expand computing capacity and reduce dependence on external processors.

Reuters reported that the chip forms part of Meta's MTIA programme and complements, rather than replaces, GPUs supplied by companies such as Nvidia and AMD. Meta has not commented on the reported September schedule.

Meta has officially outlined plans to develop and deploy four MTIA generations within two years. The chips are being designed for workloads including ranking, recommendations, training and generative AI inference.

Custom processors allow hyperscalers to optimise hardware for their own software and workloads...