Amazon shifts some voice assistant, face recognition computing to its own chips

When users of devices such as Amazon's Echo line of smart speakers ask the voice assistant a question, the query is sent to one of Amazon's data centers for several steps of processing.When Amazon's computers spit out an answer, that reply is in a text format that must be translated into audible speech for the voice assistant.Amazon previously handled that computing using chips from Nvidia but now the "majority" of it will happen using its own "Inferentia" computing chip.