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With the introduction of the Kindle Fire, it is now guaranteed that Amazon has the formula down for building the new, high volume mobile platform based on sub $9 processors. In measured fashion, Amazon has moved down Moore’s Law curve from the initial 90nm Freescale processor to what is reported to be TI’s OMAP 4 in order to add the internet, music and movies to its previously single function e-book environment. Some view it as a competitor to Apple, however the near term impact is on brick and mortar competitors (i.e. Barnes and Noble, Walmart etc) and to the mostly snail mail based movie house Netflix.

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