Archive · 1 Oct 2025
Meta to Acquire AI Chip Startup Rivos
Meta, the company behind Facebook, is buying a company called Rivos that makes chips.
This is part of Meta's plan to improve its artificial intelligence, or AI.
AI needs powerful chips, like those made by Nvidia, but Meta wants to build its own.
Meta already has a team making AI chips but is trying to speed things up.
Meta will spend a lot of money on AI this year.
Rivos was looking for money and was valued at $2 billion before this deal.
Meta also looked at buying another company, but that didn't happen.
Meta wants to compete with other big tech companies in AI.
Meta is acquiring Rivos to strengthen its internal semiconductor development for AI.
Rivos develops graphics processing units (GPUs), essential for AI work.
Meta already has an internal team building AI chips.
Meta is investing billions in AI infrastructure, including a new data center.
Meta leadership seeks to accelerate its chip development.
- Who
- Meta
- What
- Acquiring chip startup Rivos
- When
- Not immediately known
- Where
- N/A
- Why
- To bolster internal semiconductor development and AI infrastructure
- Acquisition
- Rivos
- Purpose
- Bolster internal semiconductor development and AI infrastructure
- Rivos Product
- GPU development
- Meta's AI Chip
- Meta Training and Inference Accelerator
- Capital Expenditures
- Up to $72 billion in capital expenditures planned for the year
- Funding for Data Center
- $29 billion raised to develop data center in Louisiana
- Rivos Valuation (Prior Funding Round)
- $2 billion (sought in August)