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: 2) by acid andy on Thursday April 19 2018, @11:43PM (1 child)
F***book on a chip. Ewww... A few more years and it'll be in tiny nanobots that fly into your window or arrive clinging to your snail mail and then crawl under your skin, sequence your DNA and read your memory and also your subconscious and autonomic nerve impulses so Zuck knows what you're going to do even before you do.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @09:24AM
Thank LRH we've got OT III to deal with them.