It is both; FB makes a shit-ton of HW with their open-cmpute platform....
They have a lot of XP in building real physical shit these days.
Scaling traffic is a non-issue for them.
They have a lot of XP in building real physical shit these days.
Scaling traffic is a non-issue for them.
Also worth noting, the head of OCP left Facebook today. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2111680/open-compute-project-...
My point is that they are not strangers to manufacturing tech...
Facebook phone, anyone?
There's a world of difference between a potential item, like the FB phone and an actual, demonstrated item, like the Oculus Rift, so they might get some points there.
But their record ATM is non-existent, AFAIK.