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Amazon Launches Inferentia, A Computing Chip To Enhance Accessibility To Its Services

Emeka Eni by Emeka Eni
November 14, 2020
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Amazon, the online multinational technology company, introduces its custom-designed computing chips “Inferentia” to boost the accessibility to its services and to continue business operations at a lower expense. The amazon computing chip would also fasten its processing while accessing Amazon’s other services.

Amazon is now certified as an independent chip manufacturer; with this improvement, the tech company has successfully cut down costs to achieve more business operations. This means they would no longer need Nvidia’s services, its initial computing chip supplier.

The Seattle-based online retailer noted that its new Inferentia chip would be efficient with its Echo series of the smart hands-free speaker. The pre-installed Alexa program serves as the navigator to access the smart speaker. Alexa voice assistant is built to supports the device in interacting with its user. The Inferentia chip will also reveal the Alexa voice assistant’s full potential, down to the rest of Amazon’s products.

It is pretty easy to communicate with the Alexa assistant program to process a query while using the smart speaker; the user will have to send a precise description of the command for Alexa to process while the Amazon data center processes the query, and with an immediate response as a solution, then Alexa accesses the response that is configured in a text format interactively talk-back with information via its voice assistant.

Two years ago, Amazon announced that they started developing the Inferentia chip. The chip will be programmed to enhance machine learning’s ability to accurately run tasks, such as accessing large data in a blink and translating text to speech. It is also comprehensive to recognize images. However, as of 2018, Nvidia supplied 99% of the online retail company’s computing chips.

As a tech company that offers diverse tech solutions as a service, it is expected of Amazon to administer its custom chip, which also determines an interesting competition in the industry. There is an active boom in sales of the central data chips marketplace,  and there are only a few tech companies in the sector. Whereas high profiled cloud computing companies such as Google, Azure, and AWS have regularly demanded computing chips, that resulted in the favourable market the industry experiences.

Prior to the launch of Inferentia Chip by Amazon, Other tech companies like Apple Inc have embraced administering their central processors. Apple has indulged in the central data sector. Likewise, their recent devices having started functioning on their computing chips.

The top tech companies such as Nvidia, Qualcomm, Intel, Xilinx, etc., are expected to experience a challenging marketplace in the system on a chip unit (SoCs) industry. In contrast, Apple and Amazon are also liable to experience maximum speed processing services at a lower operating business cost.

The Inferentia chip powered by Amazon is expected to take the multinational technology company to the next level. Amazon also noted that Alexa isn’t its only platform to benefit from its newly computing chip. Its cloud-based facial recognition platform ‘Rekognition,’ and its cloud storage platform, AWS, has already approved the use of its computing chip.

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