Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen OC_Formula and soft media Xinyou 1933769 for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, October 4, according to Reuters: Meta plans to lay off the chip development team (FAST) of Reality Labs, a related department of metacosmos.

Meta employees have received notice of layoffs on the internal forum Workplace, according to two people familiar with the matter. It is said that Meta will announce their final status on Wednesday morning local time. A spokesman for Meta declined to comment.

According to public information, Meta's FAST department has about 600 employees. The department has been working on developing custom chips to provide unique features and improve performance for Meta devices that distinguish them from other VR / AR devices.

However, Meta has not been able to produce chips that can compete with external products, so its equipment is equipped with Qualcomm chips.

Meta released Quest 3 last week with Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chip and built-in 8GB memory. Meta says its graphics performance is twice that of Quest 2 and even better than Quest Pro, which runs the previous generation of XR2+ chips.

128GB's Quest 3 costs $499.99 (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 3655 yuan), and the 512GB version sells for $649.99 (currently about 4751 yuan).

The company is also developing technologically challenging, smaller AR glasses that look more like ordinary glasses, as well as related smartwatches, according to people familiar with the matter.

The first version of the product will be completed next year, although Meta initially did not intend to make it widely available to consumers, the person familiar with the matter said.

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