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April 19, 2018 03:21 pm GMT

Facebook is hiring a team to design its own chips

Facebook is assembling a team to design proprietary semiconductors. 

The social network seeks a manager to head an “end-to-end SoC/ASIC, firmware and driver development organization,” reports Bloomberg, citing job listings and sources familiar with the matter. 

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It's not yet clear what exactly these chips will power. The job posting seeks “expertise to build custom solutions targeted at multiple verticals including AI/ML" (artificial intelligence and machine learning). 

This means we could be looking at something that's going to power the AI in Facebook's upcoming smart speaker, which the company planned to announce in July, but delayed indefinitely among the kerfuffle of Cambridge Analytica. Amazon is also at work on in-house AI chips to power Alexa in future Echo models.  Read more...

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