For months, there have been rumors that Facebook wants to make chips on its own. Now, this social networking company really wants to do that. Bloomberg reported Friday that Facebook has successfully attracted a senior engineer from Google to lead Facebook's chip research.

NetEase news July 13th, according to Reuters, Intel announced on Thursday that it plans to buy a small chip maker eASIC, which will help further promote its diversification and expand beyond the CPU chip.

After introducing the DELL Precision 3000 series, and the new product of the associative ThinkStation P330 series workstation, we look back at the most powerful (Xeon) E-2100 series of the six core CPU that has just been released by Intel. Like the latest desktop processor, its core number has increased from 4 core / eight thread to 6 core / 12 thread. The thermal design power consumption (TDP) varies from 71W to 95W, and the frequency / frequency is 3.8 / 4.7GHz respectively.

We have previously reported that "the ARM authorization cost is too expensive and the technology giant wants to turn to the open source architecture RISC-V". Compared with ARM, the open source RISC-V instruction set can be freely used for any purpose, allowing anyone to design, manufacture and sell RISC-V chips and software, and so RISC-V is on the embedded platform. More and more companies are paying attention, including Google, Tesla, Samsung, Qualcomm and other technology companies have joined the RISC-V camp.

According to Taiwan media reports, a few days ago, the MediaTek announced its revenue in June, with a monthly revenue of 21 billion 60 million yuan. Accumulating 110 billion 135 million yuan in the first 6 months, NT $3.53%.

According to Cult of Mac Beijing time in July 11th, Foxconn set up a new company in Silicon Valley, the industrial artificial intelligence system (Industrial AI System), to develop artificial intelligence technology to automate factory production. The new company was set up at a time when Foxconn sought to cope with the global slowdown in smartphone sales, rising labor wages, and people's reluctant to engage in manufacturing. Foxconn manufactures iPhone and iPad for apple, and ranks among the largest apple foundries.

According to "fortune" magazine online edition Beijing time on July 10th, Snap is laying the foundation for deep cooperation with e-commerce giant Amazon. According to technology media TechCrunch, the new version of the Snapchat application that Snap is developing includes a new feature called "visual search", which can be sent to Amazon using a Snapchat camera and then the latter will show the search results.

The Chinese made Dhyana (Zen) x86 processor, which is made by chip maker Hygon, started production. It is worth noting that this chip is developed according to the AMD Zen micro architecture. AMD authorizes x86's IP to Chinese partners, and Dhyana is the result of cooperation.

Set micronet messages, Rockchip formally releases the Android 8.1 Neural Networks API (NNAPI) optimized SDK based on the RK3399 platform, providing a more versatile and more powerful AI computing support for the model. It is suitable for various applications based on the mainstream model architecture, such as face recognition, ADAS, commodity identification, fatigue detection and so on.

Hongkong "South China Morning Post" July 4th article, the original question: China will rely on the core technology of the United States for a period of time, but as the whole world has entered the next stage of the so-called ZTE incident, Chinese public opinion has begun to sigh that the field of technology exists or will require more than one generation of hard work to overcome the "huge gap". Although such smart words are intended to weaken China's strength, it is also true.