👉🌍Meta’s Silicon Innovations for AI: We had the pleasure of interviewing Prahlad Venkatapuram during the latest Silicon Valley Tech Talks episode. Prahlad is the Head of Infra Silicon Development at Meta. He and his team are driving a range of innovative products and initiatives for Meta Infrastructure. Under Prahlad’s leadership, the team recently won the Tech Emmy award for Meta Scalable Video Processor.

Learning about Meta’s approach to Infra Silicon products was fascinating, especially the unique ways in which owning the full-stack AI solution helps Meta more effectively drive its AI innovations and impact.

We covered the following additional topics during this conversation:

(1) Trends in silicon Architectures like X86 and RISC-V and applications toward AI

(2) New upcoming innovations in silicon manufacturing and packaging

(3) Power efficiency aspects for compute products in AI data centers

Prahlad and the rest of the Infra leadership have built an industry-class engineering team at Meta. We also discussed their approach to hiring and sustaining Silicon/HW talent in a software-focused company.