Annapurna Labs Inc, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, has announced the availability of its Alpine range of ARM-based chips and subsystems aimed at home use Wi-Fi routers NAS (Network-Attached Storage) devices.
Annapurna was founded in 2011 and was acquired, before it had produced product, by Amazon in January 2015 for about $360 million.
Based on up to four ARMv7 and ARMv8 processor cores, the Alpine product line supports the home deployment of applications and services, including media and IoT management, surveillance and 4K/UHD television streaming.
There are already Home gateway, Wi-Fi router, and NAS product designs based on Alpine chips available from multiple equipment vendors including Netgear, QNAP Systems and Synology.