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What Facebook is building may be just…a building
Rick Merritt
1/9/2013 2:00 PM EST
Merged switch, server?
Another long shot is that Facebook's Open Compute Project (OCP) has come up with some wild and wonderful new design concept that Facebook is going to drive, say a merged switch and server. OK, I am dreaming, but it would make great ink for EE Times.
As long as I am dreaming, how about some real fantasy: Maybe Facebook will buy AMD with its extra billions, go off and build its own data center SoCs and say sayonara to the whole open source thing.
Maybe some tech celebrity—like Larry Ellison--will become the new chairman of OCP. Ugh, sorry, too much culture clash in that guess.
Sobering up for a second, I recall at that holiday media party the model of a new headquarters building that was on display. Maybe this is just one more groundbreaking—Mark Zuckerberg in hoddie with shovel in hand beside a pile of dirt near the Bay. Please, God, no!
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Another long shot is that Facebook's Open Compute Project (OCP) has come up with some wild and wonderful new design concept that Facebook is going to drive, say a merged switch and server. OK, I am dreaming, but it would make great ink for EE Times.
As long as I am dreaming, how about some real fantasy: Maybe Facebook will buy AMD with its extra billions, go off and build its own data center SoCs and say sayonara to the whole open source thing.
Maybe some tech celebrity—like Larry Ellison--will become the new chairman of OCP. Ugh, sorry, too much culture clash in that guess.
Sobering up for a second, I recall at that holiday media party the model of a new headquarters building that was on display. Maybe this is just one more groundbreaking—Mark Zuckerberg in hoddie with shovel in hand beside a pile of dirt near the Bay. Please, God, no!
Got a guess? Share it here or if it’s a really well informed one, drop me a scoop in an e-mail.
Related stories:
Facebook opens data center, server designs
Meeting Zuckerberg and Mr. EUV
Facebook Seeks to Drive Data Center Plumbing
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rick.merritt
1/9/2013 2:29 PM EST
As soon as I file a Facebook PR rep tells me the press con is NOT about the Open Compute Summit.
Hmmm. A phone? a phablet? A new data center getting built in the expensive and relatively hot environment of Silicon Valley?
What do you think it is?
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rick.merritt
1/9/2013 2:33 PM EST
Here's another crazy idea: a wireless, networked "like" button that attaches to anything in the real world. Facebook's attempt to leapfrog mobile and go straight to the Internet of Things.
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docdivakar
1/9/2013 2:50 PM EST
Rick, FB's 'building' is most likely a mega datacenter. As for FB buying AMD... I just don't see it! Google has been way ahead in data center technologies with its own servers and custom-built switches.
A like button on my laundry machine... naaah!
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rick.merritt
1/10/2013 12:33 PM EST
Hmmmm methinks Facebook has no data center in Asia, and they do have an OCP alliance of sorts with Tencent and Baidu. Hmmmm
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selinz
1/10/2013 1:58 PM EST
My high school and college age kids tend to use Facebook for all of their email type stuff and in some cases, instead of texting. Most people don't spend much time talking on the phone these days. My guess is that they are going to make a major challenge to Google in some area..
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Robotics Developer
1/11/2013 8:57 PM EST
With Facebook offering messaging and Facebook groups I wonder if they are going to announce a marketing type of service. They could leverage the huge database of users and their interests for companies looking to target specific markets. This seems to be an easy way for them to make money and "provide" a service to their users.
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