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Amazon 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 G

Amazon 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 ago
And about 10 million Nintendo Switches, which are also Nvidia powered.
new_guy 8y ago
100 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 ago
  1 employee per 10,000 echos doesn't seem like much.
giobox 8y ago
In 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 ago
Sure 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 ago
PS3 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.

Amazon 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 ago

And about 10 million Nintendo Switches, which are also Nvidia powered.

new_guy 8y ago

100 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 ago
1 employee per 10,000 echos doesn't seem like much.

giobox 8y ago

In 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 ago

Sure 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 ago

PS3 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.