Job listing reveals Facebook aiming to design its own chipsets

Looks like Facebook now has plans to design its own semiconductor chipsets. There's a job listing on the social-networking company's corporate website that says Facebook is looking to hire a manager in order to build an "end-to-end SoC/ASIC, firmware and driver development organization." For those who aren't aware, SoC stands for System on Chip. It's basically an Integrated Circuit that contains all components of an electronic system on a single piece of semiconductor, called chip. ASIC, on the other hand, stands for applications specific integrated circuit. As the name suggests,...

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