alt Hacker NewsAnker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products
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I've been quite happy with the AnkerWork S600[1], which I bought a couple years ago through Kickstarter. I don't know if it's the same chip, but they advertise a "professional NPU", and I find the voiceprint-based ambient sound rejection works very well. I can literally have my crying child in my lap and the other side of the phone call can't hear him.
[1] https://us.ankerwork.com/pages/a3319-s600-all-in-one-speaker...
It's an audio processing chip, so probably not going to show up in a charging cable. Although the engineering part of my brain says "noise" shows up in a lot of places...
It's basically a DSP for noise cancellation. They just call it AI because, presumably, that'll increase their stock price.
It's amazing how (based on polls, like https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/polling-reveals-th...) the public dislikes it when it's shoved down its throat in unrelated programs and products (as opposed to them explicitly using an LLM or content generation program), but companies keep shoving it and even making a big deal out of doing so.
Perhaps the best thing about 2026 Apple is how "behind" they are in "AI Integration". And even them have shoved useless features like "Image Playground" on us.
Anyway, time to find another peripherals vendor.
Who asked for AI on hubs and chargers?
Literally had no idea they actually made tech. I thought they just private labelled charging cables and sold them on Amazon.