Facebook Chip Development

Meta Platforms on Thursday shared new details on projects it was pursuing to make its data centers better suited to supporting artificial intelligence work, including a custom chip "family" that it said it was developing in-house. The Facebook and Instagram owner said in a series of blog posts that it designed a first-generation chip in 2020 as par...

Facebook parent Meta on Monday launched a new set of free software tools for artificial intelligence applications that could make it easier for developers to switch back and forth between different underlying chips. Meta's new open-source AI platform is based on an open-source machine learning framework called PyTorch, and can help code run up to 1...

Meta and Qualcomm are joining hands to build custom chips for the former’s next-generation headsets. The partnership will involve both companies’ product and engineering teams working together to develop next-generation Snapdragon-based chipsets.

Facebook parent Meta will become Broadcom next billion-dollar ASIC customer as the company plans to use custom chips to build its metaverse hardware, suggested a report. ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) chips will drive $2 billion to $2.5 billion in revenue for Broadcom this year, helped by its deals with Meta and partnerships with Al...

Facebook Inc. has sent another signal that it's serious about building its own semiconductors, joining Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.'s Google, and Amazon.com Inc. in trying to make its own custom chips.

Shahriar Rabii spent roughly seven years at Google before joining Facebook.

Facebook could use such chips to power hardware devices, artificial intelligence software, and servers in its data centres.

Meta Platforms on Thursday shared new details on projects it was pursuing to make its data centers better suited to supporting artificial intelligence work, including a custom chip "family" that it said it was developing in-house. The Facebook and Instagram owner said in a series of blog posts that it designed a first-generation chip in 2020 as par...

Facebook parent Meta on Monday launched a new set of free software tools for artificial intelligence applications that could make it easier for developers to switch back and forth between different underlying chips. Meta's new open-source AI platform is based on an open-source machine learning framework called PyTorch, and can help code run up to 1...

Meta and Qualcomm are joining hands to build custom chips for the former’s next-generation headsets. The partnership will involve both companies’ product and engineering teams working together to develop next-generation Snapdragon-based chipsets.

Facebook parent Meta will become Broadcom next billion-dollar ASIC customer as the company plans to use custom chips to build its metaverse hardware, suggested a report. ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) chips will drive $2 billion to $2.5 billion in revenue for Broadcom this year, helped by its deals with Meta and partnerships with Al...

Facebook Inc. has sent another signal that it's serious about building its own semiconductors, joining Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.'s Google, and Amazon.com Inc. in trying to make its own custom chips.

Shahriar Rabii spent roughly seven years at Google before joining Facebook.

Facebook could use such chips to power hardware devices, artificial intelligence software, and servers in its data centres.