Wednesday, July 20th 2022

TikTok's Parent Company ByteDance Starts Developing Custom Processors

TikTok's parent company ByteDance has recently begun hiring chip designers to help develop specialized processors for fields where they haven't been able to find existing suppliers. The company is looking to design chips that are optimized for hosting their video, information, and entertainment apps without any plans to sell these processors to other companies. This latest announcement follows various other Chinese companies such as Alibaba and Baidu in developing custom processors to decrease their reliance on foreign companies and improve performance in specific tasks. The initial job listings only include 31 openings for positions such as experts, specialists, and interns with more staff likely required in the future.
Source: CNBC
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29 Comments on TikTok's Parent Company ByteDance Starts Developing Custom Processors

#26
Bomby569
Vayra86I do stay clear of social media in general. Signal though is not social media, its communication - peer to peer and data is kept locally. A much better principle.

The point is, what applications guarantee your data ownership? Use those where you have the choice. Avoid any others. If you can't control it, you don't own it, and you're ready to be manipulated. That goes for purchases of products too versus memberships of services. The latter might be cheaper, but you have nothing, only access to a service (subject to change) with an expiry date and no rights.
reminder that search engines, emails, web pages, browsers can be as bad if not worst then social media, especially TT where the amount of data they have acess is very limited in comparison. And there is still MS and Windows.

For anyone that cares, stuff like duckduckgo, firefox with limited cookies or no cookies at all, linux goes a long way
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#27
R-T-B
SOAREVERSORreverse polish notation things that weren't that advanced.
RPN calcs of the 80s were basically full blown 8-bit scriptable computers. I still have one and very much miss my old HP-41CX. I'd say you take that right back, Mister.

There is nothing inherently inferior about RPN notation. It's actually superior for LOTS of things.
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#28
Vayra86
Bomby569i admit my knowledge of TT isn't much, but for the way it is designed the kind of data they have on you is much less relevant then what FB or GOOG have.

TT is not banned in China, what are you talking about?
Read the wiki page. You are horribly uninformed saying this.
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#29
SJZL 2.0
These custom processors are likely to be used to enhance their typical technological social media features. If you have seen how Social Media does to users, this is what I'm talking about.
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