Amazon Jumps Into the Computer Chip Business

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Amazon is getting into the computer chip business through its Annapurna Labs subsidiary that it bought last year.

Annapurna officials this week announced that the company is offering a line of systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) and associated technologies that system makers and service providers can use in such devices as home gateways, WiFi routers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices for everything from video streaming and secure storage to application virtualization and the Internet of things (IoT). Annapurna’s Alpine processors are based on ARM’s 32-bit ARMv7 and 64-bit ARMv8 architectures…

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