- Published on November 17, 2020
- In Deep Tech
Amazon Making In Roads Into Chip Industry; Now Uses Its Own Machine Learning Chips For Alexa Services
- By Ram Sagar
“Amazon’s cloud-based voice service Alexa powers Amazon Echo devices and more than 140,000 models of smart speakers, lights, plugs, smart TVs, and cameras.”
At last year’s re:Invent conference, AWS announced the launch of its Inferentia chips designed to process machine learning workloads. This week, AWS has announced that the Alexa services will now be powered by AWS Inferentia, their own chip. As a result, they have migrated the majority of their GPU-based ML inference workloads to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Inf1 instances.
According to Amazon, every month, tens of millions of customers interact with Alexa to control their home devices. They claim that there are more than 100 million devices connected to Alexa and migrating to Inferentia chips have made Alexa servic
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Ram Sagar
I have a master's degree in Robotics and I write about machine learning advancements.
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