Amazon Designing Custom AI Chips for Echo and Fire TV
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Amazon's making its own AI chips for Echo and Fire TV instead of relying on Qualcomm for everything. The bigger news: Panos Panay hints Amazon's building wearables and 'on-the-go' devices to compete beyond the smart speaker.
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Panos Panay doesn't usually talk chips in public, but on CNBC's
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Amazon locking hardware to its own silicon and its own Alexa+ ecosystem is the same walled-garden move Apple perfected years ago, just arriving late and wearing a friendlier voice assistant costume. I'm skeptical of
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