However, Amazon sometimes utilizes bogus shell firms for FCC applications in order to keep its goods hidden, and the photographs of Flake’s second product submitted with the agency — another “Digital Media Receiver” — are a dead ringer for the Echo Studio. And, according to the latest filing, the Echo Studio and this second item are “electrically identical” save for a different MediaTek wireless chip. It’s unclear why Amazon is swapping the chip, but it could be to address supply chain issues, as some other companies have done before: Tesla used alternative chips to help keep production going, and Panic announced last year that it would need to use a different CPU in later shipments of its Playdate gaming handheld.
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