If you think Amazon ’s own - branded products were a little strange — baby pass over , anyone?—then things just get a little more serious . The retailer has just announced that it ’s pop out to betray its own ARM - based atomic number 14 chip .
Amazon purchased the semiconductor house Annapurna Labs last year , and now its readied a lineage of chips under the name Alpine for sale . But you probably wo n’t be getting these dispatch via Prime , because they ’re really intended for use by OEMs .
The crisp are n’t peculiarly gamey - octane computer hardware , but alternatively the form of integrated brains that can be used by Wi - Fi routers , web Attached Storage equipment and media streaming equipment . For those task , though , they fathom more than up to the job , with up to four processors and a bunch of connectivity alternative .
In fact , they ’re already being adopted by the likes of Asus and Netgear for some of their products . It ’s unclear whether Amazon will start using the chips in its own devices or not .
[ Annapurna LabsviaBloomberg ]
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