More silicon sales for us says Qualcomm
Meta’s latest move in the effort to reinvent Second Life, or roll out the metaverse, involves building better VR chips and it’s trusting Qualcomm with the job.
At the IFA conference in Berlin this week, Meta and Qualcomm penned a multi-year partnership to co-develop custom silicon for next-gen VR platforms. In an interview last month on the Joe Rogan Experience Zuckerberg promised VR headsets would be shown off in October at his biz’s Connect conference, despite his earlier doubts at how hardware deadlines would work out.
“Our hope is that within the next decade, the metaverse will reach a billion people, host hundreds of billions of dollars of digital commerce, and support jobs for millions of creators, developers, and importantly, enable better social experiences than anything that exists today,” Zuckerberg said during Qualcomm’s IFA keynote.
“Of course, it’s going to require big advancements in connectivity, compute, technology, and hardware to bring all this to life, and that’s where Qualcomm comes in.”
Working with Qualcomm under the deal, Zuckerberg aims to develop customized virtual reality chipsets for Meta’s Quest line of VR headsets, Qualcomm’s happy because while this wonderous tech is developed it’ll be selling lots more Snapdragon chips to Meta for Oculus Quest headsets.
