ByteDance is developing in-house AI chips, to be manufactured by Samsung

Not much is known about the AI inference chips, or how they compare to Nvidia’s offerings, but ByteDance is going to be making about 100,000 of them «this year,» and then scale up to 350,000 units, according to Reuters.

ByteDance has been known to work with US chip producer Broadcom, and started seriously hiring chip specialists in 2022.

The new chips are set to be produced with Samsung in a deal that includes memory chips, which definitely sweetens the deal.

Production is advanced enough that Reuters’ sources say engineering samples are due by late March, which is the last stage before production.

A spokesperson for the company does not deny the report outright, but claims the information is «inaccurate,» Reuters writes.

Most US frontier labs are developing their own chips, as is Alibaba and Baidu.

Read the scoop at Reuters.