Amazon has worked to develop specialized chips for AI

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Amazon began developing a chip of artificial intelligence that will be used in its "smart" Echo dynamics. It is reported portal The Information, citing an anonymous source in the company. The new chip will work on devices with a personal assistant Alexa, which will increase the speed of information processing and reaction gadgets.

The Source reports that most of the data in this case will be handled on the device itself, while now the analysis is performed on the cloud server.

The newly developed Amazon will be able to catch up with competitors in the face of Apple and Google, which already produce and use their own chips of artificial intelligence. In A11 processor from Apple has a special AI engine that can help the neural networks, and the processor Processing Unit Tensor from Google used in all major AI projects of the company, including Alpha Go. In addition, the publication notes that such a desire can do all these company's traditional competitors and the world's largest chip manufacturers, Intel and NVIDIA. Before Amazon, Apple and Google to their customers.

Intel is now actively engaged in the development of "smart" devices. In early February, the company showed AR glasses Vaunt. The journalist of the Verge Dieter Bon tested the tool and wrote an exclusive review, which noted that Vaunt can be a real breakthrough. He compared the glasses with Google Glass and stated that the device from Google loses. NVIDIA, in turn, hit in the technology of AI for vehicles.

In December last year, "daughter" Amazon Web Services has introduced a Suite of new products that operate on the basis of artificial intelligence. In particular, the camera DeepLens for $ 250-based AI platform for developing machine learning algorithms and SageMaker service for translation and transcription on the basis of AI.

At the same time, as reported by The Seattle Times, Amazon.com cuts hundreds of jobs in its headquarters in Seattle. At the same time, the company plans the opening of a new headquarters and creating 50 thousand jobs. The redistribution of personnel within the company marked principally to the strengthening of the state perspective divisions (like project Alexa), and the weakening of the retail section. Last year the number of employees of Amazon in the United States increased by 66 percent and reached 566 thousand people.

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