Facebook Plans to Build Its Own Chips as Part of Hardware Push

Effort aims to give company more control over design and development of hardware projects

Facebook Inc. is planning to design chips that could be used in its consumer devices, artificial-intelligence software and data centers, according to a person familiar with the matter and recent job listings.

The effort is part of the social-media company’s nascent push to develop more of its own hardware.

The project to design custom chips,...