Does Facebook Develop Custom Chips for Machine Learning and Video Quality Improvement?
Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are investing huge amounts of money to develop their own chips with the aim of reducing costs and improving performance of servers for machine learning applications. This time, according to information from related sources, it was revealed that Facebook is also developing its own chip.
Facebook Develops New Machine Learning Chip — The Information
Facebook developing machine learning chip --The Information | Reuters
According to the information that the news site The Information obtained from two people involved in the project, Facebook is developing 'a chip for strengthening machine learning necessary for tasks such as recommending content to users' and ' It is a video transcoding chip that aims to improve the image quality of videos recorded by users and live streaming. '
Facebook is reportedly moving to organize an SoC / ASIC development team in 2018. At this point, there was a view that it may be possible to develop chips for AI technology, which have been under development for some time, in-house.
Facebook reveals move to organize SoC / ASIC development team in-house, for AI, servers or new devices-GIGAZINE
By Fritzchens Fritz
If Facebook succeeds in producing cheap, high-performance chips, it can be expected not only to reduce the increasing carbon dioxide emissions of data centers, but also to reduce its reliance on chip vendors such as Intel and Qualcomm. The Information points out.
'Facebook is constantly looking for ways to achieve higher levels of computing performance and power efficiency through our silicon partners and internal efforts,' a Facebook spokeswoman said. 'At this point, we have nothing new to tell you about our future plans,' he said.
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