After Apple, now Facebook may have bad news for Intel, Qualcomm

NEW DELHI: A new report has surfaced online suggesting that Facebook will manufacture its own chipsets. According to a report by Bloomberg, Facebook is building its own team in order to manufacture its own semiconductors. Facebook seems to be joining the same bandwagon as Google and Apple.

Recently, it was reported that Apple is also planning to make its own chipset and Amazon is also making custom hardware in order to improve Alexa. A Facebook job listing highlights that the company planning to bring a manager who will help create an "end-to-end SoC/ASIC, firmware and driver development organization."


The job role requires the manager to build a team which will look after the hardware for building chips, AI software or servers and others.

On the other hand, another Facebook AI researcher Yann LeCun tweeted about a different role of making chips for AI purpose and pointed out at a different job listing.

It might be possible that Facebook could use these chips to power its own hardware devices, servers in data centers and AI softwares. The social networking giant is also working on its lineup of smart speakers, which could be powered by its own chipset.
Recently, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook tracks and collects the data of a non-user as well. As part of the questioning done by US Representative Ben Luján, Zuckerberg said that Facebook collects "data of people who have not signed up for Facebook."

The privacy concerns has landed Facbook in trouble since last month. The company confirmed that data of about millions of users wrongly ended up in the hands of political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, a firm that has counted US President Donald Trump's 2016 electoral campaign among its clients.