According to the post, Facebook is looking for an practiced inward ASIC in addition to FPGA—two custom silicon designs to assistance it evaluate, educate in addition to campaign next-generation technologies inside Facebook—particularly inward artificial intelligence in addition to machine learning.
The social media society is seeking to hire an practiced who tin "an end-to-end SoC/ASIC, firmware in addition to driver evolution organization, including all aspects of front-end in addition to back-end measure prison theatre mobile telephone ASIC development," reads the job listing on Facebook's corporate website.
SoC (system-on-a-chip) is a processor typically used inward mobile devices alongside all the components required to ability a device, spell ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) is a customized slice of silicon designed for a narrow role that companies tin gear toward something specific, similar mining cryptocurrency.
FPGA (field programmable gate array) is an adaptable fighting designed to move a to a greater extent than flexible in addition to modular blueprint that tin move tuned to speed upwards specific jobs yesteryear running a item slice of software.
First reported yesteryear Bloomberg, edifice its ain processors would assistance the social media giant trim dependency on companies such equally Qualcomm in addition to Intel, who concur the lion's portion of the processor market.
Reportedly Apple, who already makes its ain A-series custom chips for iPhones, iPads in addition to other iThings, has planned to utilisation its custom-designed ARM chips inward Mac computers starting equally early on equally 2020, replacing the Intel processors running on its desktop in addition to laptop hardware.
Google has likewise developed its ain artificial intelligence chip, in addition to Amazon is reportedly designing its custom hardware to improve Alexa-equipped devices.
The computer program to invest inward edifice its ain processors could assistance Facebook to ability its artificial intelligence software, servers inward its information centers, equally good equally its hereafter hardware devices, similar Oculus virtual reality headsets in addition to smart speakers (similar to Amazon Echo in addition to Google Home).
Using its custom chips would likewise permit the social media society to gain to a greater extent than command over its ain hardware roadmap ameliorate in addition to eventual characteristic laid to offering ameliorate surgical operation to its users.
Facebook has non commented on the tidings yet, then at this time, it is difficult to tell where the society volition deploy its in-house chips.
