http://www.techradar.com/news/amazon-alexa-is-set-to-get-smarter-with-custom-ai-processors >Amazon’s sudden move into AI chip development suggests they want to make your conversations with Alexa as delay-free as possible. >As first reported by The Information, Amazon plans to create proprietary AI chips and place them in its Amazon Echo, Amazon Dot, and every other speaker in their lineup. This will allow your new device to handle speech recognition and data processing locally instead of shipping it off to the cloud first.