Also includes standalone installations of Grace and Vera central processors.
issued Wednesday, February 18, 2026 · 07:37 am
[SAN FRANCISCO] Nvidia announced Tuesday (February 17) that it has signed a multi-year agreement to sell millions of current and future artificial intelligence (AI) chips to Metaplatforms, including central processing units that compete with products from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
Nvidia did not disclose the purchase price, but said it includes current Blackwell chips and upcoming Rubin AI chips. This also includes standalone installations of Grace and Vera central processors.
Nvidia will introduce these central processors, based on technology from Arm Holdings, as companions to its AI chips starting in 2023. But Tuesday’s announcement suggested that Nvidia aims to push these chips into emerging areas such as running AI agents, as well as into the market for processors used in everyday technology tasks such as running databases.
Nvidia’s announcement comes as Meta is developing its own AI chips and is in talks with Google about using its Tensor Processing Unit chips (TPUs) for AI work.
Ian Buck, general manager of Nvidia’s hyperscale and high-performance computing division, said Nvidia’s Grace central processor has been proven to be able to use half the power for some common tasks, such as running databases, and the next generation of Vera is expected to deliver even more performance.
“It’s actually continued on that path, making it a great data center purpose-built CPU for high-intensity data processing back-end operations,” Buck said. “Meta already has the opportunity to leverage Vera to run some of those workloads, and the results look very promising.”
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Nvidia has not disclosed sales figures for Meta, but the company is widely believed to be one of four customers that accounted for 61% of sales in the most recent fiscal quarter. Moorhead said Nvidia may have highlighted the deal to show it maintains large business with Meta and is gaining momentum in central processing chips. Reuters
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