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Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products

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Re: Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products

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Post by ryanisnan »

BeetleB wrote: post #8
55555 wrote: post #2

Literally had no idea they actually made tech. I thought they just private labelled charging cables and sold them on Amazon.

They make a lot of not-top-tier products. The products are usually quite good, but not the best. They're often the best value . (Very happy with my $60 Anker earbuds).

Anecdotally, I've always been reasonably pleased with their products. I think I've owned a couple of powerbanks, and a USB/HDMI hub. Of the brand names on Amazon, I do tend to lean towards them a bit more.

edit: having said all of that, relating to this article, I don't want AI anywhere near the products of theirs I'm currently buying.

Re: Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products

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Post by Aurornis »

BeetleB wrote: post #8
55555 wrote: post #2

Literally had no idea they actually made tech. I thought they just private labelled charging cables and sold them on Amazon.

They make a lot of not-top-tier products. The products are usually quite good, but not the best. They're often the best value . (Very happy with my $60 Anker earbuds).

Anker is a brand where buying a product feels like pulling the lever on a slot machine. I'm either going to get a product that works great and I love it, or it's going to feel half-baked and fail early.

Re: Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products

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Post by Aurornis »

coldtea wrote: post #3

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 In…

Early in the article it explains that these devices already had small neural nets on board. The advancement is that they can now put larger neural nets on board.

The best noise cancellation has to be adaptive. Neural nets help this work well. If making the product work well is "shoving it down your throat" then I don't know what to say.

The public presumably didn't hate the products before this chip and before knowing they had some form of AI on board.

> Anyway, time to find another peripherals vendor.

Why? You don't even understand what the AI functionality is for or the fact that it already existed. You just get triggered by reading articles like this?

Re: Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products

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Post by [deleted] »

coldtea wrote: post #3

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 In…

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Re: Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products

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Post by nearbuy »

coldtea wrote: post #3

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 In…

According to the article, it's used for noise cancelling and calling that can better isolate voice from background noise. It's not an AI assistant or an LLM. These are totally different and the public's feelings on LLMs do not apply to their feelings on active noise cancelling.

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Post by bookofjoe »

echelon wrote: post #5
55555 wrote: post #2

Literally had no idea they actually made tech. I thought they just private labelled charging cables and sold them on Amazon.

Anker is a powerhouse and they've grown huge. Best chargers on the market, hands down. Best cables too. But they've gone into high end stuff. They make the Eufy brand of LiDAR smart vacuums for instance. All done in house, and consistently in the top rankings against market leaders like Roborock and Dreame. They're killing it. They're doing home security systems, and all sorts of stuff under the Eufy brand.

I love my Eufy camera: no subscription fee, plug-and-play, never a problem, just a crystal clear view of my driveway with never a glitch. Cost me around $35 a couple years ago.

Re: Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products

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Post by 4ndrewl »

55555 wrote: post #2

Literally had no idea they actually made tech. I thought they just private labelled charging cables and sold them on Amazon.

Another +1 for Anker kit - ime it just works, is reasonably priced, and seems to last (I'm still using a 10 year old usb battery of theirs).

Re: Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products

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Post by derektank »

echelon wrote: post #5
55555 wrote: post #2

Literally had no idea they actually made tech. I thought they just private labelled charging cables and sold them on Amazon.

Anker is a powerhouse and they've grown huge. Best chargers on the market, hands down. Best cables too. But they've gone into high end stuff. They make the Eufy brand of LiDAR smart vacuums for instance. All done in house, and consistently in the top rankings against market leaders like Roborock and Dreame. They're killing it. They're doing home security systems, and all sorts of stuff under the Eufy brand.

Did not realize the Eufy brand was affiliated with Anker. Feels like a missed opportunity, Anker has earned some goodwill from me that might sway my purchasing decisions in the home automation category

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Post by SyneRyder »

echelon wrote: post #5
55555 wrote: post #2

Literally had no idea they actually made tech. I thought they just private labelled charging cables and sold them on Amazon.

Anker is a powerhouse and they've grown huge. Best chargers on the market, hands down. Best cables too. But they've gone into high end stuff. They make the Eufy brand of LiDAR smart vacuums for instance. All done in house, and consistently in the top rankings against market leaders like Roborock and Dreame. They're killing it. They're doing home security systems, and all sorts of stuff under the Eufy brand.

Love my Anker chargers. I like them even better than my Apple chargers now. Liked their wireless phone charger too, though the blue light on that was excessively bright. I have lots of Anker USB cables, no problems with them.

Didn't know they made Eufy. That would make me highly consider Eufy for anything.

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