MTIA 300: Meta’s First Training Chip with Built-in NICs and Communication-Offloading Engines Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled MTIA 300, the first chip in its MTIA family designed for both training and inference, optimized for ranking and recommendation models, and featuring built-in NIC chiplets and communication-offloading engines. The chip's integrated networking capabilities, paired with Meta's HCCL communication library, deliver superior performance over general-purpose GPUs for training recommendation models, according to an Engineering at Meta blog post. MTIA 300 is the first of Meta’s family of in-house training and inference accelerators optimized for training ranking and recommendation models. We’re sharing how MTIA 300’s built-in NIC chiplets allow it to meet the communication needs associated with training recommendation models with superior performance over general-purpose GPUs. By co-designing MTIA’s communication library, HCCL, alongside the ... The post MTIA 300: Meta’s First Training Chip with Built-in NICs and Communication-Offloading Engines https://engineering.fb.com/2026/08/24/networking-traffic/mtia-300-meta-training-chip-built-in-nics/ appeared first on Engineering at Meta https://engineering.fb.com .