Alibaba is currently in the electricity business, AI, new retail and smart home and other markets booming, the goal is to catch up with Amazon, becoming the world's largest cloud faucet. Amazon is currently mainly by artificial intelligence voice assistant Alexa, to expand the smart home products , Such as Echo, Echo Dot and Echo Spot and other products, and then layout to the smart car, uninhabited shops and other markets.Alibaba is the development of voice assistant platform AliGenie, to the whole Chinese dialogue, the first corresponding product is the smart speaker lynx Elf X1, now Alibaba plans to smart speakers into the hotel, build smart rooms, the future will enter the aviation and new retail industry.
Alibaba plans to publish in the middle of November the new smart speaker products, which will use MediaTek ASIC chip, as a voice recognition device computing chip, which is following the days of the cat Wizard X1, Alibaba's second smart speaker into the MediaTek chip The product.
Not only that, Ali cloud is now actively layout AI market, in addition to previously announced cooperation with Xilinx FPGA, Ali cloud will use MediaTek ASIC chip, as a network chip, and the cooperation has been reported for six months, In the near future the two sides may announce the cooperation case.
In fact, MediaTek as early as the second half of this year came its network chip into the equipment manufacturers Cisco, and even the next stage is expected to snatch network equipment manufacturers Juniper orders, behind the biggest contributor is MediaTek holds 75% of the subsidiary Qing Communication, as the key to win the Ali cloud orders.