Frankly, most don't even think about it because it's just a given, but during a recent tour of Facebook's hardware lab, director of engineering Matt Corddry, says Facebook scale requires them to rethink the old rules and let engineers imagine outside industry standards.
Among them: Senior Hardware Engineering Manager, Director, Hardware Platforms and Systems, and Hardware EE Reliability Engineer.
Countless delays, a platform change to make way for current-gen hardware and original director Tetsuya Nomura leaving the project almost a decade after it first saw the light of day all took a toll on development, among other roadblocks.
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As Facebook's director of hardware engineering, he leads the team that builds the actual hardware that stores the photos, thoughts, and memories of the more than 1 billion people worldwide who share their lives on Facebook.
"I envisage them as scalable off-the-peg PC hardware," said Tim Clark, editorial director at Future Publishing and an ex-editor of the Official PlayStation Magazine.
Price cuts announced by Sony and Compaq this week on several, mostly high end, consumer laptops will probably inspire other makers to follow suit, said Stephen Baker, director of hardware analysis for PC Data, a company that tracks electronics sales.
"The depth of the PC decline, which had revenue losses of more than 20percentt year-over-year, overshadows some exciting growth categories in the computer products business," said Stephen Baker, NPD Intelect's director of hardware research.
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