Even TikTok owners want to produce their own AI chips
According to Reuters, the Chinese company ByteDance, which owns the TikTok service, is developing an artificial intelligence chip and is in talks with Samsung Electronics about its production.
According to Reuters, the Chinese company ByteDance, which owns the TikTok service, is developing an artificial intelligence chip and is in talks with Samsung Electronics about its production.
ByteDance plans to receive samples of the chips by the end of March, Reuters reported. The company plans to produce at least 100,000 chips designed for artificial intelligence tasks this year, according to the sources. It is noted that Bytedance plans to gradually increase production to 350,000 units.
A ByteDance representative said that the information about the chip production project is not true, and Samsung declined to comment.
ByteDance has long sought to develop chips to support its AI workloads. The company’s work on chips began at least in 2022, when it began actively hiring specialists in the field.
In June 2024, it was reported that ByteDance was collaborating with American chip developer Broadcom on an advanced artificial intelligence processor, the production of which is planned to be outsourced to Taiwanese company TSMC.
ByteDance plans to spend more than 160 billion yuan ($22 billion) on AI-related purchases in 2026, with more than half of this amount allocated to purchasing Nvidia chips.
ByteDance CEO Zhao Qi said at a general meeting of employees in January that the company’s investment in artificial intelligence will benefit all divisions.
Recall that Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet plan to spend $670 billion on artificial intelligence infrastructure this year. As a percentage of GDP, this is significantly more than the cost of a flight to the moon.
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