- Meta exploring the acquisition of rivos to accelerate the development of AI fleas and reduce dependence on Nvidia
- Meta leaders would have been frustrated by the slow progress of internal fleas
- Flea acquisitions could be essential for the AI training and inference scale and RIVOS have RISC-V expertise
Meta would seek to acquire Rivos of Puces Startup in an agreement to strengthen its internal semiconductor program and give the company more control over its IA infrastructure and greater independence from Nvidia.
Although Meta already has her own chip project, Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA), like all hyperscalers, he always spends strongly in Nvidia GPU – a dependence which has become expensive as society increases its ambitions in AI.
Report on the agreement, Bloomberg Said that the terms of the acquisition were not made public, but in April 2024, Rivos collected $ 250 million in series A.3 finance to fuel its global growth, and any sale price should be between nine and ten, range of figures.
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Bloomberg Said that some meta leaders are not satisfied with the slow rhythm of internal flea works, which has led its leadership to explore ways to accelerate progress, including external acquisitions.
In 2024, the company attempted to acquire a Korean startup of Furiosaai chips for $ 800 million, or about $ 300 million compared to the estimated market value of the startup, but finally failed due to a disagreement with the management planned after the acquisition.
Not so long ago, Meta was all all about the metavese (to the point of changing the name of the company), but now the chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, said that AI is the absolute priority of the company, with expenditure commitments reaching tens of billions of dollars in infrastructure and talent.
If the Rivos agreement takes place, Meta will benefit from a team capable of building high-level RISC-V chips, which could be adapted to its IA workloads.
Although Rivos seems to be a good adjustment for Meta, the startup has faced a certain controversy in the past.
In 2022, Apple accused the company of stealing commercial secrets via former employees, a dispute that was resolved last year after filing requests for request.
Meta’s acquisition talks show the determination of the social media giant to bring more of its supply chain in AI under its own roof, but whether the agreement passes or not.
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