If Facebook recently does something bad with something, it's with two things: maintaining the privacy of users' personal data and developing cool hardware from Facebook. But now, judging by the recently opened vacancies in the company, Facebook will seriously engage in the production of equipment. As Bloomberg writes, Facebook is looking for a manager to develop ASIC. ASIC is an Application Specific Integrated Circuit, a special purpose integrated circuit that does this: it is a processing chip that performs a specific task. The popularity of ASIC technology has grown strongly against the backdrop of a boom of crypto-currencies: ASIC-miners are used for mining bitcoins in large quantities than processors or video cards could. Just because ASIC-equipment is able to perform one task very well.
Bloomberg notes that in the case of Facebook, such a vacancy can mean anything, from future Oculus sets to processors needed for future Facebook servers. But more importantly, this is not the only new vacancy for the new chip design program. The vacancy was posted by the head of the development of artificial intelligence in Facebook. This means that Facebook plans to seriously engage in chips that will create the best AI. Such chips can be found in smart speakers that need AI to understand your words, or in servers that process images of individuals.
Apple, Qualcomm and Huawei are producing processors for phones, trying to improve the processing by AI. Google and Intel are also actively exploring this area, and NVIDIA is investing billions in becoming the leader in this new area of chip production. Facebook can easily connect to this tusovochke.
Zuckerberg Company has long been studying the possibilities of artificial intelligence and is trying to implement it in its social network. For example, AI Facebook fights against so-called hate speech (or simply insults and trolling in social networks), and also tries to understand which advertisement suits you best. What's bothering is the inability of Facebook to hold personal data under lock and key . New opportunities will lead to new risks.
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