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A Facebook job posting indicates the company is looking to design its own system-on-a-chip or Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC):
Facebook Inc. is building a team to design its own semiconductors, adding to a trend among technology companies to supply themselves and lower their dependence on chipmakers such as Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., according to job listings and people familiar with the matter.
The social media company is seeking to hire a manager to build an "end-to-end SoC/ASIC, firmware and driver development organization," according to a job listing on its corporate website, indicating the effort is still in its early stages.
The Menlo Park, California-based company would join other technology giants tackling the massive effort to develop chips. In 2010, Apple Inc. started shipping its own chips and now uses them across many of its major product lines. Alphabet Inc.'s Google has developed its own artificial intelligence chip as well.
Also at TechCrunch and The Verge.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by looorg on Thursday April 19 2018, @02:20PM (2 children)
I wonder what they are going to use them for? Are they going to chip all their users for "easy login" and tracking? Now that everyone is having a hissy fit about their facial recognition and tracking and selling of data and web scraping and how Zuck sucked in the hearings and ... the list just goes on. Chip 'em all, like the pets that they are.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday April 19 2018, @05:48PM (1 child)
> Are they going to chip all their users for "easy login" and tracking?
haven't you heard of them newfangled smartphone thingies ?
People pay to get tracked!
Dumb fucks.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday April 19 2018, @06:02PM
You can misplace your phone. If they insert a tracking chip in your neck they'll follow that forever. I'm sure it could be sold as they won't be tracking you anymore online, they are just tracking their hardware ...