Reply to post: Re: But it's *not* Alexa-on-a-chip

Buried in the hype, one little detail: Amazon's Alexa-on-a-chip could steal smart home market

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: But it's *not* Alexa-on-a-chip

I bet it's little more than a mic, an A/D convertor with DSP and a WiFi chip and some pins to trigger output signals/read back input signals. Maybe just enough processing power to respond to it's "wake up word". Everything else is controlled by the Borg.

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