Chinese company ByteDance, owner of the popular video social network TikTok, will start to develop its own chips, an act that comes to be yet another move by China against the onslaughts of the United States and Europe.
although the Latest news are quite scarce, but the information indicates that the company, headquartered in the capital of Beijing, is trying to explore the segment of custom chip design for its own use, namely to apply in certain specialized fields where existing and traditional solutions cannot respond to the your needs.
According to a spokesman for the Chinese company:
The chips will be customized to handle workloads related to ByteDance's various business areas, including video platforms and information entertainment applications.
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In short, ByteDance is advancing in this segment because it is unable to find suppliers that create solutions that meet what the company is looking for. Therefore, the owner of TikTok has no plans, for the time being, to manufacture chips to sell them to other companies, but only for her own use.
And this initiative is motivated by the fact that companies are increasingly looking for specific chips, and also by the measures taken by the Chinese government to boost this sector in the country, especially at a time when the US and Europe are strengthening their chip production. .
According to the CNBC channel, ByteDance has already placed several advertisements on its official website with job offers for positions related to the area of semiconductor design.
