Exposure Facebook is developing a machine learning chip

Sep 12,2021
According to the information on the information on Thursday, Facebook is developing a machine learning chip for handling tasks such as users.

According to reports, the company has also developed another chip for video transcoding to improve the experience of watching recording and live video on its application.


Informed people revealed that the engineers join Facebook engaged in chip development initially focused on working with external chip companies to optimize current chip design. For example, Facebook announced in 2019 that it is working with companies such as Intel, Qualcomm and Boyong to develop a semi-uniform ASIC chip for reasoning and video transcoding, ensuring that demand in advance and enhances performance and energy efficiency.

At present, Facebook is developing reasoning and video transcoding chips, and these work does not participate in any external company. According to sources, in the data center of Facebook, the newly developed chips will be used with the half-staple chips purchased outside, not the latter.

Learn from the Facebook project, Facebook is also designed for personal computing devices, such as Oculus virtual reality header design chips. It has been reported that Facebook has dug ahead of the Google Chip Design Team Sahriar Rabii, which is responsible for the development of chips in the field of reality and virtual reality. Earlier this year, Israeli media reported that Facebook plans to build a chip design center in Israel.
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