Nuked Qualcomm and meta have signed a multi-year agreement promising to team up on custom versions of Snapdragon XR chips for the’future roadmap of quest products’.
The quest 2 is powered by the Snapdragon xr2 chipset. It could provide insight into meta’s compromises as it faces declines in revenue.
Meta’s upcoming headsets reportedly include a high-end headset codenamed cambria and later versions of its cheaper quest headset.
This is despite competing companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google making product decisions around custom chip designs like M2, graviton3, and Shields. This is because meta’s had a team dedicated to doing the same since 2018.
In April, meta employees were working with semiconductor fabs to make custom chips for its as-of-yet AR headset. Meta’s attempts to create the chips were hitting roadblocks, pushing it to use a Qualcomm chip for its second-gen ray-bay smart glasses instead of its own Silicon.
Tyler Yee said that the company does n’t discuss details about how its roadmap has evolved and would n’t comment on any specific plans it may have had for custom chips for quest products.
There could be scenarios where we use off-the-shelf Silicon or work with industry partners on customizations.’it is all about doing what is needed to create the best metaverse experiences possible,’ he said.
The company currently uses Android to power the quest. It was reportedly working on its own operating system for its virtual and augmented reality devices.
Meta’s revenue has dipped for the first time. The company is spending, and losing, billions of dollars per year on the project.
