What you need to know about the Amazon AZ2 Neural Engine
(Android Central)

The Amazon Echo Show 15 not only hangs on your wall but can learn to recognize your face. That`s because it has a new piece of Amazon-designed silicon inside dubbed the Amazon AZ2 Neural Engine. Yes, Amazon custom designs ARM chips. The AZ2 isn`t even the first one (hence the 2), but it`s a lot more capable than the AZ1, which powers some of the best Alexa speakers and offers something new for Amazon — edge computing. If you`re not sure what edge computing is, this chip and what it does actually makes it easy to understand. All the processing to learn and recognize your face is done using machine learning through the chip itself and nothing needs to be sent across the internet to make that happen. I still think any computer learning to recognize human faces is pretty creepy but doing it locally instead of through a remote server is pretty cool. Also, you have to opt-in for this feature, so you can still buy Amazon`s new Echo Show 15 even if you think it`s creepy like I do. But e...