Chinese tech giant ByteDance is developing its own central processing units (CPUs) to support growing AI infrastructure needs, three sources said.
Rising chip prices and supply shortages are constraining expansion plans.
ByteDance, parent of TikTok, aims to deploy its proprietary CPUs in its own servers and data centers for internal operations, preparing for a massive rollout of agent-based products including the Coze platform.
The company is pursuing two chip architectures: Arm and open-source RISC-V, to determine the best design for long-term data center requirements.
Intel and AMD CPU supply delays and price hikes have prompted ByteDance to accelerate in-house alternatives.
