On October 15, 2026, Bloomberg’s Haze Fan reported that ByteDance and Taiwan-based chipmaker MediaTek were in advanced talks over custom AI chips for ByteDance data centers, citing people familiar with the discussions. Bloomberg’s report describes the proposed chips as Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), customized to work with a client’s platform and intended to help run ByteDance data centers.
If the talks lead to a deal, Bloomberg said ByteDance could become MediaTek’s second major ASIC customer, after Google. Reuters said it could not immediately verify Bloomberg’s report. Reuters’ report
