Meta swallows Rivos—now what?

Lots of hints, rumors, and leaks to suggest Meta’s ambitions for Rivos may go beyond adding to Meta’s technology portfolio.

October 13, 2025

Jon Peddie

What does Meta want from its latest acquisition, Rivos Inc. Rivos has been developing multi-chiplet SoCs combining RISC-V CPUs, GPUs, and unified HBM3e + DDR5 memory for AI and data-center workloads. Its heterogeneous architecture supported SIMT GPUs, open instruction sets, and shared memory between CPU and GPU domains. Meta’s stated ambition for its AI chip development is to reduce its need for products from Nvidia and AMD, but its acquisition of Rivos raises intriguing possibilities. Rivos has been building its technology for flexibility and adaptability, giving Meta the potential to build customized products. Before the acquisition by Meta (for $870

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