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Comment X3 is Rockchip/Spreadtrum/RDA, NOT intel (Score 2) 112

Intel was forced to "invest and partner' in China, or face same sanctions Qualcomm did. They decided to throw China a bone in form of $1B and license for lowest performance Atom CPU cores.

X3 will be made 100% by chinese 'partners', if at all - previously Intel dropped ATOMs $40 sticker price down to $4 Allwinter 4core level and there still were almost no takers.

Comment Re:Who processes the commands? (Score 1) 248

Figuratively I agree with you, but not literally. We could put computers and software into a house to handle voice recognition. Most of us here probably have enough processing power already

again, this was NEVER about processing power, Siri used to run locally and on 1GHz one core ARM phones (before it was bought out by Apple, renamed to siri and moved server side).

Voice recognition algorithms are small and simple (for example walking over HMMs). Its learning that is processing intensive and takes whole clusters and tons of example data.

Comment Re:Who processes the commands? (Score 2) 248

If we somehow had enough processing power and software _in_ the house I'd consider it..

We do. It was NEVER about processing power, it was always about control and gathering more data.
In part this data is later used to retune DNNs, but also to extract usage patterns, habits, scenarios, context.

Comment Re:ha (Score 1) 149

It isn't a captive market, competition from the ferries should keep it down. A return ferry ticket is about €50. While you could charge a premium for business class seats, they alone won't fill a train. The Eurostar London-Paris service is a reasonable comparison. Booking in advance, you can usually get a return ticket for that for £100 in off-peak hours. The Dover-Calais ferry is cheaper, but way more inconvenient.

or you could fly there for 45 pounds ...

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