{"id":413458,"date":"2021-09-10T10:33:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T08:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=413458"},"modified":"2021-09-10T10:34:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T08:34:32","slug":"facebook-developing-in-house-machine-learning-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/413458-facebook-developing-in-house-machine-learning-chips.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook developing in-house machine learning chips"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook is designing a range of chips focussed on machine learning workloads such as content recommendations and video transcoding, The Information reported<\/strong><\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n

The social media company joins the likes of Google and Apple in the move away from chip suppliers to save on costs and increase server performance.<\/p>\n

Citing two people familiar with the project, the report said that the one chip in development would improve its apps’ video-streaming experience.<\/p>\n

The other would improve the precision of content recommendations on the social media platform.<\/p>\n

According to the report, implementing inexpensive, more powerful chips could help Facebook reduce its environmental impact at its continually expanding data centres.<\/p>\n

In 2019 Facebook indicated<\/a> <\/strong>that it would be developing its own custom chip designs for AI tasks and video transcoding in conjunction with major custom silicon players such as Qualcomm, Intel, and Marvell.<\/p>\n

According to a Facebook spokesperson, the company \u201cis always exploring ways to drive greater levels of compute performance and power efficiency with our silicon partners and through our own internal efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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