{"id":127328,"date":"2021-09-06T18:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T01:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/tech-giants-are-rushing-to-develop-their-own-chips-heres-why"},"modified":"2021-09-06T18:23:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T01:23:32","slug":"tech-giants-are-rushing-to-develop-their-own-chips-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/tech-giants-are-rushing-to-develop-their-own-chips-heres-why","title":{"rendered":"Tech giants are rushing to develop their own chips \u2014 here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tech-giants-are-rushing-to-develop-their-own-chips-heres-why2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not content with relying on standard chips that are in high demand, some of the world\u2019s biggest tech firms are developing their own semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AAPL\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AMZN\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/FB\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/TSLA\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BIDU\" target=\"_blank\">Baidu<\/a> are all shunning established chip firms and bringing certain aspects of chip development in-house, according to company announcements and media reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncreasingly, these companies want custom-made chips fitting their applications\u2019 specific requirements rather than use the same generic chips as their competitors,\u201d Syed Alam, global semiconductor lead at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/ACN\" target=\"_blank\">Accenture<\/a>, told CNBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not content with relying on standard chips that are in high demand, some of the world\u2019s biggest tech firms are developing their own semiconductors. Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Tesla and Baidu are all shunning established chip firms and bringing certain aspects of chip development in-house, according to company announcements and media reports. \u201cIncreasingly, these companies want [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}