Amazon shifts some voice, face recognition computing to own chips

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Amazon shifts some voice, face recognition computing to own chips
Amazon on Thursday said it shifted part of the computing for its Alexa voice assistant to its own custom-designed chips, aiming to make the work faster and cheaper while moving it away from chips supplied by Nvidia Corp. When users of devices such as Amazon's Echo line of smart speakers ask ...

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