The deal includes NVIDIA’s latest Blackwell chips and its upcoming Rubin AI chips. It also covers standalone installations of the company’s Grace and next-generation Vera central processors.

Although NVIDIA did not reveal the financial value of the agreement, the scale of the order signals a major commitment from Meta.

NVIDIA first introduced its Grace central processors in 2023, built on technology from Arm Holdings. These processors were designed to work alongside NVIDIA’s AI chips, but the company is now expanding their use into broader data center operations.

According to NVIDIA, its Grace processors can use nearly half the power for certain tasks, such as running databases. The upcoming Vera chip is expected to deliver even better performance and efficiency.

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Ian Buck, head of NVIDIA’s hyperscale and high-performance computing unit, said the Vera processor is proving to be a strong option for high-intensity data processing in data centers. He added that Meta has already tested Vera on some workloads and found the results “very promising.”

The announcement comes at a time when Meta is also developing its own AI chips and exploring discussions with Google about using Tensor Processing Unit chips for artificial intelligence projects.

Industry analysts believe Meta is among NVIDIA’s top four customers, which together accounted for 61 percent of NVIDIA’s revenue in its most recent fiscal quarter. The public announcement of this deal suggests NVIDIA wants to show it remains a key supplier for Meta while expanding its presence in the CPU market.