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W/o Paywall: https://outline.com/vqmqwg https://outline.com/vqmqwg This org could be it's own company (like many other Amazon orgs)! For context, number of emp
by Zaheer 8y ago
W/o Paywall: https://outline.com/vqmqwg https://outline.com/vqmqwg
This org could be it's own company (like many other Amazon orgs)! For context, number of employees at:
Motorola (2014): 40,000
Nvidia: 11,528
AMD: 8,900
- njharman 8y agoI bet there are more Alexa customers than nvidia ones. And way more than direct AMD ones.
- kevinventullo 8y agoAmazon has sold about 35 million Echo units, which is a little under half of the total number of PlayStation 3 units sold to date, each of which has an Nvidia GPU in it.
- Kudos 8y agoAnd about 10 million Nintendo Switches, which are also Nvidia powered.
- new_guy 8y ago100 million, they released numbers the other day https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonecho/comments/ad2drt/100_million_alexa_devices_have_been_sold_yes/ https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonecho/comments/ad2drt/100_mill...
- devoply 8y ago1 employee per 10,000 echos doesn't seem like much.
- giobox 8y agoIn an interview with the Verge this week, Amazon themselves finally revealed a relatively solid sales figure (by Amazon standards) - over 100 million units with Alexa pre-installed. Sure, this will presumably include some non-Amazon hardware, such as Sonos etc. It's unquestionably less than the number of devices containing some kind of Nvidia IP. However, that's still a pretty impressive number of devices, especially when being an Echo/Alexa interface is likely the primary function of many of these devices - something you can't say about Siri or Google Assistant to anything like the same extent given it comes as part of the OS on many phones. > https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/4/18168565/amazon-alexa-devices-how-many-sold-number-100-million-dave-limp https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/4/18168565/amazon-alexa-devi...
- dwild 8y agoSure but they have plenty of R&D cash to spend and I feel like their goal isn't to sell a single device but to become the technology leader in that field. They didn't put Alexa into a microwave for no reason, they want it everywhere. Like someone else said too, most of them are probably just doing data labeling.
- njharman 8y agoPS3 is made of plastic that doesn't make a purchaser oil company's customer. Same with the chips in it. Sony was nvidia's customer.
- RIMR 8y agoNo way Alexa has anywhere near as many customers as Nvidia. Not only does Nvidia ride the Cryptocurrency wave, they are also the leading manufacturer of PC GPUs, and their processors are found in literally billions of devices, like game consoles and smartphones. There are tens of millions of Echos. They're successful, but not ubiquitous like Nvidia devices.