On the same day\u00a0Microsoft Corp. showed off some custom processors in its new Surface products\u00a0in New York, the company was trying\u00a0to hire even more chip designers to fuel\u00a0its\u00a0growing microprocessor-design ambitions.<\/p>\n
The company held a recruiting event Wednesday in Austin, Texas, seeking\u00a0experienced\u00a0\u201ccustom CPU\/SoC design\u201d engineers for jobs in Raleigh, North Carolina;\u00a0Sunnyvale, California; and Fort Collins, Colorado, in addition to its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, according to a\u00a0post\u00a0on Microsoft-owned LinkedIn. SoC stands for system on a chip and it\u2019s a single piece of silicon with multiple chips \u2014 widely used for smartphones.<\/p>\n
All the locations except Redmond have deep chip talent connections.\u00a0Qualcomm Inc.\u2019s former server chip team was based in Raleigh and\u00a0Sunnyvale is near Santa Clara, which is home to Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp. and Nvidia Corp. AMD has another site in Fort Collins.<\/p>\n
Microsoft works with each of those companies to customize chips and may be interested in recruiting some of their workers. The company has been increasingly designing parts or all of processors for things like HoloLens augmented reality goggles, cloud infrastructure and its own hardware.<\/p>\n
The overhauled Surface Pro X hybrid laptop and tablet announced Wednesday features a chip called Microsoft SQ1, which is based on Qualcomm\u2019s Snapdragon product\u00a0with some changes, and also contains an artificial intelligence processor.<\/p>\n
On the same day\u00a0Microsoft Corp. showed off some custom processors in its new Surface products\u00a0in New York, the company was trying\u00a0to hire even more chip designers to fuel\u00a0its\u00a0growing microprocessor-design ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":242088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[53373,123,12641],"class_list":["post-321978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-chip-design","tag-microsoft","tag-surface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}