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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 thejazzman »

dpoloncsak wrote: post #30
ssl-3 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They've been first at a few things. For instance: Back in the Bad, Old Days, charging phones (especially smart phones) wasn't quite as simple as today. The aftermarket cables were shit. Brands came and went overnight (they still do, but they did then too), and even if a person eventually found some cables that worked then it was hard to get more of them later. The aftermarket charging bricks were shit. I had some tha…

Didn't it come out that their cameras were uploading everything to the cloud even though they swore it didn't? I feel like I remember being very disappointed with Anker for something...

Eufy was uploading the thumbnails to S3, if I recall correctly, so that they could be delivered in push notifications

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

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Post by prymitive »

dpoloncsak wrote: post #30
ssl-3 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They've been first at a few things. For instance: Back in the Bad, Old Days, charging phones (especially smart phones) wasn't quite as simple as today. The aftermarket cables were shit. Brands came and went overnight (they still do, but they did then too), and even if a person eventually found some cables that worked then it was hard to get more of them later. The aftermarket charging bricks were shit. I had some tha…

Didn't it come out that their cameras were uploading everything to the cloud even though they swore it didn't? I feel like I remember being very disappointed with Anker for something...

They own Eufy which sells cameras with main feature being “no subscription needed”, that are very unreliable and full of ads (which isn’t being advertised as much as lack of subscription). They do also go big on labelling a lot of simple features as AI where in reality it’s something as simple as “detect a person in a photo”. I have Eufy cameras and it’s complete garbage, sadly competition is also mostly garbage. Bold unsustainable claims at st the core of their business, it’s not just thumbnails.

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

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Post by coldtea »

Aurornis wrote: post #13
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 knowin…

>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?

Because if it this is just adaptive NC using some NN, I still dislike vendors using terms like "AI" to jump on the bandwagon.

And of course because I already have a huge adversion to actual generative AI shoved down my throat in products I use, including macOS/iOS (thankfully lesser), and Windows/Office (much more), and content creation programs.

And don't get me started on generative AI slop shoved down my throat in HN submissions, YouTube, and every major platform, from X to Substack, and even into places it should never have even touched, like Art Technica, which I've been reading for a quarter of a century.

So, yes, excuuuuuuse me, for not liking such announcements, even if they're not about generative AI.

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

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Post by dpoloncsak »

thejazzman wrote: post #31
dpoloncsak wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't it come out that their cameras were uploading everything to the cloud even though they swore it didn't? I feel like I remember being very disappointed with Anker for something...

Eufy was uploading the thumbnails to S3, if I recall correctly, so that they could be delivered in push notifications

This sounds right? All I can find is an LTT video on the topic and I'm not in a place to watch a video at the moment

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

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Post by gib444 »

SyneRyder wrote: post #20
echelon wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What is there to "love" about an Anker charger out of curiosity (or, well, any charger)?

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

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Post by hn_throw2025 »

SyneRyder wrote: post #20
echelon wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Apple sell Anker chargers on their website, alongside their own.

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

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Post by recursive »

echelon wrote: post #7
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…

AI is polarizing. The rest of the world outside of the US and Europe loves AI. China is embracing it fully. Why is our Western media making the public hate it so much? It's almost as if it's a top down edict from all the news giants to constantly dump on AI and make it sound like it'll kill you. If we maintain this view, we're going to get steamrolled. And we'll have deserved it.

It kind of seems the opposite to me. I'm seeing so much marketing budget and and positive media exposure. It's the people that don't like it because of what it is and what it represents.

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

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Post by smohare »

SyneRyder wrote: post #20
echelon wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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Post by co-ent »

gib444 wrote: post #35
SyneRyder wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What is there to "love" about an Anker charger out of curiosity (or, well, any charger)?

Pretty much what one of the posters above summarized. They were one of the first aftermarket brands for phone chargers that you didn't have to worry about what protocol your phone was going to try to use for fast charging, it'd just work™ and be more affordable than OEM. Add in mostly decent build quality and they got a surprisingly strong base for it.
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