ByteDance develops custom CPUs for ai infrastructure
ByteDance is developing proprietary central processing units to support growing AI inference workloads and to ease rising costs and supply constraints, three people familiar with the matter said. The company is pursuing two architecture tracks, Arm and RISC-V, and has approached external partners to assist with chip design and to secure foundry capacity, though the project is at an early stage. ByteDance currently sources CPUs from Intel and AMD and faced quarter-over-quarter price increases ranging about 10 to 35 percent, spurring its push as it prepares agent-based products including Coze.
ByteDance is developing CPUs using Arm and RISC-V architectures.
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Global CPU supply has tightened and chip prices have risen recently. ByteDance now plans…
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