Amazon is now in the ARM CPU business

[Phynaz]

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1328624&

Annapurna Labs Inc., a subsidiary of Internet shopping channel Amazon.com, has announced the availability of its Alpine range of ARM-based chips and subsystems aimed at home use Wi-Fi routers and Network-Attached Storage devices.

 

[Madpacket]

Amazon is getting into everything. I predict they'll eventually dwarf Microsoft and Apple given how diverse and driven they are.

 

[Rakehellion]

aimed at home use Wi-Fi routers and Network-Attached Storage devices

So they're crappy and underpowered, just like all of their other hardware.

 

[Rakehellion]

Amazon is getting into everything. I predict they'll eventually dwarf Microsoft and Apple given how diverse and driven they are.

I think they're just ripping off Google, except Google is doing a better job of it.

 

[Madpacket]

I think they're just ripping off Google, except Google is doing a better job of it.

Huh? How do you figure?

 

[Rakehellion]

Huh? How do you figure?

Apple is a hardware company, Microsoft is software, Google and Amazon are mostly online services.

Also, Amazon's phone tanked worse than Microsoft's.

 

[Nothingness]

Nitpicking: Amazon is not in the ARM CPU business, but in the ARM SoC business. I don't think they'll be developing their own CPU's. The previous Annapurna chip (AL-514) was using Cortex-A15.

BTW the EETimes says "Annapurna was acquired, before it had produced product, by Amazon in January 2015". This is misleading given that Synology already had announced the AL-514 based DS2015xs by end of 2014 with availability in March, so the chip definitely was produced before Amazon bought them

 

[NTMBK]

So they're crappy and underpowered, just like all of their other hardware.

Compare the Fire TV with the Apple TV, it's way more powerful.

 

[Phynaz]

Apple is a hardware company, Microsoft is software, Google and Amazon are mostly online services.

Actually Google is an advertising company;
http://www.statista.com/statistics/266471/distribution-of-googles-revenues-by-source/

 

[Rakehellion]

Actually Google is an advertising company;
http://www.statista.com/statistics/266471/distribution-of-googles-revenues-by-source/

Last time I checked that was an online service.

 

[ramj70]

Amazon is getting into everything. I predict they'll eventually dwarf Microsoft and Apple given how diverse and driven they are.

My company is going to move their data platform over to Amazon web services. Didn't know Amazon did that until they told us.


https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/finra/

 

[malabo]

i hate amazon, they are a bad business partner that will stab you in the back in two seconds. unfortunately they can buy their way into any market. ill always avoid them if possible. bezos is a psychopath. i was happy to see their phone fail

 

[Phynaz]

^RBM?

 

[Rakehellion]

My company is going to move their data platform over to Amazon web services. Didn't know Amazon did that until they told us.


https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/finra/

Yeah, thy have a pretty strong cloud platform.

99% sure that getting into the router business is just a push to mine everyone's data.

 

[Sunny_OC]

I could see Amazon making a OnHub competitor, but combining it with the Echo to make a "living room friendly" device that not only gives you the 'best signal' but lets you use Echo features. I bet it would include prime too, to promote buying items from Amazon, which seems like the main use of the Echo to me.