Meta Signs Multi-Billion Dollar Deal for Millions of Amazon Graviton5 CPUs — Agentic AI Needs CPUs, Not Just GPUs

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Meta will deploy tens of millions of Amazon Graviton5 CPU cores across AWS data centers in a 3-5 year, multi-billion dollar deal. Purpose: agentic AI workloads requiring real-time reasoning, code generation, and multi-step orchestration. Signals a new chip race where CPUs complement GPUs for inference-heavy agent architectures.