In a sign of broader ambitions, Facebook opens hardware lab
Derek Jouppi, a hardware design engineer intern at Facebook Inc, tests servers at the company's hardware labs in Menlo Park, California, US. In a sign of broader ambitions, Facebook opens hardware lab Facebook built its fortune on the internet, that non-physical space where people share updates and digital videos with friends. And like Google's celebrated X lab, where the internet search giant pursues "moonshot" projects such as self-driving cars, Facebook's new research facility demonstrates that in Silicon Valley, leading tech companies are rarely content to keep doing the same thing. "When you think about connecting the world, you have to build different types of hardware to help people connect," said Jay Parikh, Facebook's head of engineering and infrastructure. Dugan's group will use the Area 404 lab, but Facebook wouldn't talk about specific projects she will undertake.
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