Fortunately, rumors suggest it’s now working on its own speaker. According to WinFuture, the company is collaborating with Quatna to make a Microsoft-branded speaker. The information comes from ‘evidence in documents from a developer team’. It will apparently be powered by a Snapdragon 212 variant, based on the ARM Cortex-A7 architecture with four 1.3 GHz cores. We can only assume such a speaker would be Cortana-based, but also able to invoke Alexa via the upcoming integration.
Too Little, Too Late?
WinFuture says this design is in the early stages, and we can’t verify its sources. Even then, it’s not unreasonable for Quanta to create an early design, only for the project to be axed. Basically, take this report with a grain of salt unless further information comes to light.
