Facebook hires Google's first chip designer behind Pixel Visual Core to create its own hardware

According to a Bloomberg article, Facebook has been promoting Google's best chip designer, Shahriar Rabii

this month. According to his LinkedIn profile, Google's Shahriar Rabii heads the team responsible for building Visual Core for Pixel smartphones. The chip handles machine learning and computational photography, which helps put Pixel 2 among the best cameras on the market today.

Just like Google, Facebook's decision to create its own chips stems from the need to reduce reliance on third-party vendors. or Intel. He joins the movement of Apple who believes in creating a more personalized and efficient machine that can be better suited to work with their software. Although heavy chips, as the processors are still shipped by these companies and Google and Facebook, unlike Apple, can never enter the base chip manufacturing. IPhones and iPads come with processors designed by Apple and by 2020, Apple also hopes to provide iMacs with Apple chipsets

Facebook has set up a team to start designing its own chips earlier this year. He builds custom chips that would be useful for many of his data processing, augmented reality and artificial intelligence programs. According to the report, Shahriar will work under the direction of Andrew Bosworth, head of virtual reality and augmented reality.

Oculus VR, owner of Facebook, launched the Oculus Go virtual reality headset that is badociated with Facebook's virtual reality software. The headset works with a Qualcomm chip, but going further, it can contain a custom chip that offers better integration and more precise control of its VR software. The company would be developing its own line of smart speakers that will be powered by its AI algorithms and there could be several other hardware devices or IoT that the company might consider launching to compete with Apple and Google. [19659002] See also : Your phone does not listen to your private conversation, but maybe you watch with camera: Experts

Lately, Facebook has put all its AI-based innovations to Track down the fake news and identify hate speed on his social media platform. He worked on products that could quickly reduce to zero and clear fake accounts as live video offensive. However, it has been in the news recently for many privacy breaches and for sharing user data, without permission, with third-party applications.