Facebook Poaches Top Google Engineer To Help It Design Its Own Chips
In an effort to enhance its ongoing development of AI-based chips. The tech giants Facebook— has hired one of Google"s lead chip developers—Shahriar Rabii. Previously Senior Director of Engineering at Google, according to a report from Bloomberg . Shahriar Rabii, will work for the social media platform as the vice-president and head of silicon. Rabii previously worked at Google, where he helped lead the team in charge of building chips for the company’s devices, including the Pixel smartphone’s custom Visual Core chip, according to his LinkedIn profile. He’ll work under Andrew Bosworth, the company’s head of virtual reality and augmented reality. According to his LinkedIn profile , which shows Rabii had joined Google in December, 2011 as Director of Engineering, where he "launched multiple silicon development programs." His profile bio says that Rabii founded a Consumer Silicon team known as "gChips" within Google and later the hardware group"s Techno...