Why does Facebook want to design its own AI chip?

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Netease Smart News April 21st News By following the footsteps of Google and Apple, Facebook can manufacture processors that accelerate the speed of its numerous artificial intelligence algorithms and can even power new hardware products.

According to Bloomberg, Facebook hopes to hire talent to establish an "end-to-end" chip R&D organization in the company. This job announcement specifically mentions application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) that are used to efficiently perform some very specific tasks, such as facial recognition. It also mentions system-on-chip (SoC) hardware, which is often used in mobile or small devices—Facebook can put it in Oculus VR headsets or (currently delayed) smart speakers.

Importantly, the chip is a multi-billion dollar business and it can also save a lot of money for middlemen like Intel. In addition, as Moore's Law is about to stop, it's getting harder and harder to increase speed on general-purpose chips - so designing new chips for very specific internal tasks can help companies improve performance. Facebook hopes that the new chip will reduce costs and speed up.

At present, more and more technology companies are making chips, threatening companies such as Qualcomm, Intel, and Nvidia. Google is developing artificial intelligence chips to power its data center and open source software. Apple has been developing new chips to run its mobile products, and Microsoft has just released the latest chips for IoT products.

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