Facebook Hires Google's Top Chip Engineer to Build Its Own Custom Chips

Facebook may have been caught in a boatload of controversies but it appears to be quite serious about its in-business firm hardware and silicon efforts. Google'southward hardware efforts, which take recently become quite of import, have taken a huge hit as the company's chief of fleck development has left Mount View to join Facebook.

Kickoff reported by Bloomberg, the social media giant hired Google's Shahriar Rabii earlier this month. This has been revealed by his Linkedin contour, which tells u.s. that Rabii has been hired as a Vice President and head of silicon at Facebook. He is expected to work under Facebook'southward VP of Hardware, Andrew Bosworth.

Prior to joining the social networking giant, Rabii was in-charge of the squad building the chips for Google's expanding product lineup. This includes the much-talked-nearly 'Pixel Visual Core' that helps the Pixel ii lineup capture natural and stunning photos and Titan security chip.

Rabii joined Google back in 2011 equally the 'Managing director of Technology' and launched a variety of silicon development programs and a Consumer Silicon team called gChips within the company. He was later promoted to the position of 'Senior Director of Applied science,' where he led all the chipset-related efforts at Google.

Facebook Hires Google's Top Chip Engineer to Build Its Own Custom Chips

We know that the social media giant had been looking to build its own chips to farther support its blooming hardware concern, be it Oculus, or an upcoming smart speaker (an Amazon Echo Show-like device). Rabii volition now assistance Facebook develop silicon in-house to lucifer their requirements instead of relying on big chipmakers like Qualcomm or MediaTek.

While Google was engrossed in chip development for its forthcoming devices, Facebook may be looking to use this valuable resource for a variety of different utilize-cases. It may employ in-house chips to process info at its expansive data centers or accelerate its AI projects. The social networking behemothic is besides working on many projects at its 'Edifice 8' hardware division, and so we could see its in-firm silicon being employed there equally well.