Production is held pending Wire delivery of verified content on competing custom AI silicon programs and dedup resolution confirmation.
Items required from Wire before production: 1. Google TPU program: current generation, deployment status, performance claims, T1/T2 source (Google DeepMind blog or Google Cloud announcement preferred). 2. Amazon Trainium: current generation (Trainium2 / Trainium3 status), deployment context, T1/T2 source (AWS blog or Amazon announcement preferred). 3. Microsoft Maia: current generation status, Azure deployment context, T1/T2 source (Microsoft blog preferred). 4. Dedup resolution confirmation from operator: confirm the existing draft “Meta Reportedly Reveals New MTIA Inference Chips With Six-Month Release Cadence” has been upgraded and published (or approved for merging) before this deep-dive is published. The deep-dive references the MTIA brief as its primary source item.
Dedup note: This deep-dive answers a different editorial question than the draft upgrade above (the draft upgrade answers “what did Meta announce?”; this deep-dive answers “what does the industry-wide pattern of custom silicon development mean for enterprise AI infrastructure strategy?”). They are distinct pieces. Both can publish. The deep-dive should not publish before the draft upgrade is live, it references that brief as context.