ZTE was banned by the U.S. government and it sounded alarm bells for domestic and foreign technology companies. Large-scale technology companies lacked the support of core technologies and the 'closure' was only overnight.
Facebook The latest news shows that the US social giant Facebook, is planning to carry out self-developed chip work. According to Bloomberg News, Facebook is trying to build its own chip design team to reduce dependence on Intel, Qualcomm and other chip giants.
According to Facebook’s official website’s recruitment information, the company wanted to recruit a manager to create an “end-to-end system-on-chip/application-specific integrated circuit, firmware and driver development organization.” This also indicates that Facebook’s self-developed chip project is still at an early stage. stage.
Oculus Go Facebook began to develop its own chips, which should be to prepare for future hardware equipment. As we all know, as early as 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus, a VR startup company, for 2 billion US dollars. Since then, VR investment boom has set off. Currently, Oculus has demonstrated Its latest VR machine Oculus Go, the device equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 processor.
Obviously, Oculus Go was only equipped with 821 after the Opteron chip iteration to 845. This may be one of the reasons why Facebook chose to develop its own chips. After all, like Apple's self-developed chips, product release will not be subject to people.
