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   QuickLogic is bullish about a market for using Alexa to add voice control to systems using the EOS sensor hub it started shipping in November. So far three smartphones, one wearable and one IoT device are using the chip.
   
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   1. In a story on Alexa QUIK says
      
      3 smartphones...
      
      That is new incremental info.
      
      so it could be an error. Just for fun I looked for smartphones adding Alexa..
      
      1. Lenovo Moto
      
      2. Huawei. Mate 9
      
      
      Amazon's Alexa is about to land on more smartphones
      Watch out Siri and Google Now: Lenovo is integrating Amazon's digital assistant into its Moto Z phone.
      
      
      By Steve Ranger | February 27, 2017 -- 11:07 GMT (03:07 PST) | Topic: Hardware
      
      • Moto Z modular smartphones.
        
        Lenovo said that "later this year" owners of its Moto Z smartphone will be able to buy a Moto Mod with Amazon Alexa. The company did not reveal pricing.
        
        
        You may not think you need a voice-activated speaker and a cloud-powered digital assistant in your home, but Amazon's Echo and Alexa may persuade you otherwise.According to Lenovo, Moto Z users will be able to ask Alexa to turn on the heating when they leave work so that the house is warm when they get home, or more prosaically simply add milk to a shopping list.
        
        Later this year Lenovo will integrate Alexa more fully into its smartphones so that you won't have to unlock the phone first.
        
        "With our Amazon Alexa Moto Mod, you can easily perform everyday tasks while on the go, like controlling your smart home, checking the news, requesting a ride from services like Uber, and more -- using just your voice," the company said.
        
        Lenovo isn't the first smartphone maker to add Alexa; last month Huawei announced that Alexa will be built into its Mate 9 handset.
        
        This could turn out to be a significant step; Amazon's digital assistant, embodied in the Amazon Echo smart speaker, has proved very popular and companies are now scrambling to build it into devices from washing machines and smart locks to cars.
        
        
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        That's giving Amazon plenty of momentum in the connected home, but the device we carry with us all the time is the smartphone. If consumers warm to the idea of Alexa everywhere, then integrating the service could be a handy boost for companies like Lenovo and Huawei, giving them a leg-up against bigger rivals with more established digital assistants.
        
        If it takes off, or more smartphone makers jump aboard, Alexa could become a big new rival to Apple's Siri, Google Now, and Microsoft's Cortana.
      • So it would be a module you could add to their phone
   2. 2. Huawei...
      
      Amazon's Alexa just conquered another phone
      Wednesday, 22 Mar 2017 | 9:00 AM ETCNBC.com
      Courtesy of Huawei
      The battle over voice assistants is heating up. For the first time, Amazon's digital assistant Alexa will come preinstalled on a smartphone, challenging Apple's Siri and Google Assistant on the turf they've carved out. What's more, it'll come on an Android phone.
      
      Today, China's biggest smartphone maker, Huawei, will deliver an over-the-air update, pushing the Huawei Alexa app to Mate 9 customers in the United States, as promised at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in January.
      
      
      The large screen Android Mate 9 has been well reviewed, but hasn't really cracked the U.S. market, as none of the big U.S. carriers are selling it yet.
      
      Still, it's a significant move for Amazon as Alexa moves beyond the home and into mobile. Earlier this week, its virtual assistant becameavailable on Apple's iPhone through the Amazon app. Amazon is also in negotiations to integrate Alexa in some Motorola smartphones.
      
      Amazon isn't the only one pushing its digital assistant -- Googlerecently started pushing its Google Assistant to millions of Android phones running recent operating systems (Marshmallow and Nougat), and Samsung is launching its own assistant, Bixby, on its next flagship smartphone later this month (also an Android).
      
      While Huawei doesn't have much of a presence in the US yet (according to The Information, that could change soon), the Chinese company is the world's third largest smartphone maker. This partnership could give Alexa a foothold in China, a market that Amazon is moving deeper into with its launch of a version of its Prime membership last year.
      
      
      So they started with software, will they move it of the AP?
      
      AM considering that this is the power of the Sensory/ Amazon partnership to ADD voice for NOT Tier 1 players.
      
      GOOG Pixels will NOT use Alexa, Samsung devices will use BIX no Alexa,
      
      So I will make a folder for Smartphones who do use Alexa to track that along for something fun to do.
      
      A potential conclusion;
      
      Some Smarthphone makers will use ALexa to add voice and some of those devices will have Eos S3...

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   Alexa on IoT non smartphone devices?
   
   NO way to track as there are so many. But some Brian Faith cc comment worth looking at again
   
   
   Now, they can start doing implementation or design into multiple products at the same time. We saw that happen in the past with display bridges, and I think we’re going to see a repeat of that in the future with our current solutions. So that’s [Multiple Speakers]
   
   once you start getting traction of these customers, again, actually momentum, people are developing multiple products at the same time different groups that starts getting a multiplicative effect.
   
   
   SMartphones, wearable, IoT devices..
   
   and Ricks probing of the Alexa stuff at CES...
   
   
   Rick Neaton
   
   Okay. Can you explain how you and Sensory facilitate the deployment of Alexa since it already is pretty useful in its current form. What – since I didn’t get to Las Vegas, what was the demo that you used to approve your concept and how does that make Alexa and other voice applications better?
   
   Brian Faith
   
   Yes, good question. So Sensory has voice recognition technology and they’re behind a lot of these triggers they’ve used, say like, Galaxy, okay Google. They also have the Alexa trigger, which is the Amazon’s products. And the nice thing about what Amazon is doing from an ecosystem point of view is, they’re actually enabling other peoples to build products, they have their Alexa trigger, which is why we saw it all over CES from fans to refrigerators to cars.
   
   So what we demonstrated at CES was a home automation, example, where we had our EOS S3 on a very small board, running the Alexa trigger, and we actually hacked into the light in the hotel room. So when somebody came in, they could say, hey, Alexa, turn the light on and the light will come on, and say turn the light off, and it turns off. And so the reasons why we’re showing that demo is, yes, Alexa is out there today and it’s functional. But what if it could be battery powered and you could sprinkle around your house. You don’t have to go buy under $50 Amazon battery, $250 Amazon Achelous and turn the light of your house.
   
   If the trend is going to be more competing at the edge, it’s going to be sprinkling these things around with batteries not line powered, that’s the big difference of what we enable at EOS S3, not just a functionality from a voice point of view, it’s the ability to do that at batter powered applications is the big difference.
   
   The other thing I will mention is that, the typical Alexa trigger if you were to plug in your house like a light example. it goes up with the cloud to figure out what light you need to turn and off and there’s a lag. And if you’re walking through your house at night, you probably don’t want to have a lag, you want to have the light turn on into the room. And so what we’re doing is, we’re running Alexa deeply embedded on our device, you don’t have to go to the cloud, you can immediately do whatever you tell us to do like turn the light on or off. And so, the fundamental difference here that we’re enabling more real-time and we’re enabling it to be done in battery.
   
   So the IoT device is probably a real device that fits these cc comments....
   
   Also consider that the MULTIPLE word would sort of fit....Folks would want ALexa across all their devices?
   We need voice so lets use ALexa on our phone n on our wearable and on our IoT?
   
   Voice will be a platform not a single device?

   
   Later this year Lenovo will integrate Alexa more fully into its smartphones so that you won't have to unlock the phone first.
   

13 Apr. 2017 SMIC Advanced Technology Workshop Shanghai, China

done
18 Apr. 2017 SMIC Advanced Technology Workshop Santa Clara, CA, US


yesterday and onward to

9 May. 2017 SMIC Advanced Technology Workshop Hsinchu, Taiwan



Hsinchu is a city in northern Taiwan, southwest of the capital city of Taipei. It’s known for its ornate Hsinchu City God (Cheng Huang) Temple, lined with food stalls. Close by is Yin Hsi East Gate, a 19th-century structure once used as an entrance to the city. Hsinchu Zoo houses hippos, Bengal tigers and Malay bears. Southeast of the center, trails cross the forested Shibajian (18 Peaks) Mountain.


QUIK is the traveling gnome of eFPGA?

As a part owner I like these sort of postcards!


 

This company is small, but very global, I like these tech road shows as a part owner A LOT more than I like those aimed at the street-like the Roth type ones: but .....to each there own,

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   So consider that from 40 to 22 gives us 60% of new area...
   
   And then to 12 another 50% after that.
   
   So as a part owner of this business being on the RIGHT side of Moore's law is fun, the anxiety of watching an AP suck up the great Apical algo is banished thankfully for good. QUIK will add more engines toward that word heterogeneous computing. Only IF it is ubiquitous will it get hardened...
   
   A FEW APP companies are HUGE enough to have proprietary engines of their own?. say
   Flexible Facebook engine, to partition within the SoC.
   
   
   I also believe technologies / companies signed up for FDXelerator will be available on 12nm FDX too.
   
   
   
   Why do I reread this often?
   
   
   This week I am NOT looking at it from my small point of view, but pretending I am a Tier 1 MAJOR app company with a new product division who has a vision of the future... I WOULD NOT use anything that did NOT scale toward that horizon....
   
   Now QUIK CAN use 22 and then 12 to add a LOT of stuff ... the SoC for that ultimate vision can barely be glimpsed from the rooms that QUIK has just entered, after waiting a long time for the invite.
   
   Use any incremental info to let it sink in that QUIK IS worth a LOT more today than ever before.