Facebook is a large company with many projects going on. While I admit that machine learning accelerators is a likely candidate, there are a huge number of poss

Facebook is a large company with many projects going on. While I admit that machine learning accelerators is a likely candidate, there are a huge number of possibilities for potential ASIC projects. Facebook owns Oculus, I could easily see Oculus needing a custom ASIC, maybe a low-latency display driver. Or a high-powered SoC if they decide to do an untethered Rift. This is also where I could see them potentially making a GPU. Making a whole SoC is hard, why not take an off the shelf one and attach it to a custom mobile GPU chip. It's also possible that Facebook might have a smartphone project on the go (again). A custom SoC could be useful for that. Or facebook might be considering post smartphone devices. There are lots of places where a SoC could be useful. Facebook has been making their own open servers (and switches) for a while. But they still built around "backdoored" intel CPUs. I could easily Facebook wanting a high-performance server grade open CPUs (probably RiscV based).