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Amazon begins shifting Alexa’s cloud AI to its own silicon – Ars Technica
The amazon-designed Inferentia chips reduced cost and latency in text-to-speech.
When I first started in computers, most of the big companies made their own silicon and much of it was RISC based. IBM had its own version of the PowerPC chip. Sun, of course. Sun had the SPARC processor. HP had their own PA-RISC chips. It was what distinguished you from your competitors.One by one, they all dropped their chips in favor of Intel’s i86 CISC architecture. Apple was the last company to do so in 2007.
And they all did so for the same reason: Although RISC was supposed to be faster and…
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