At its invite-only hardware event today, Amazon revealed the new Echo Show 15 smart display, powered by the company's next-generation "AI processor," the AZ2 Neural Edge.

The upcoming Echo Show carries a 15.6-inch screen with 1980×1080 resolution. Inside lives the AZ2 Neural Edge CPU, which uses four cores and, according to Amazon, 22 times as many TOPS (trillions of operations per second) than the last-gen chip. The biggest difference between the AZ2 and AZ1 is the former’s ability to process machine-learning-based speech models “significantly faster,” according to Amazon’s announcement. Computer vision (CV) algorithms can be handled on the device rather than in the cloud, allowing the Echo Show 15 to handle features like visual ID and voice processing with comparatively less latency. And like the AZ1, the AZ2 can handle speech recognition and CV workloads simultaneously.

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Amazon is marketing the Echo Show 15 as a do-all device for families with a lot on their plates. A new widgets gallery lets you display things like sticky notes, calendar events, upcoming deliveries, and recipe ideas on-screen. A smart home favorites widget lets the Echo Show 15 serve as a smart home hub, reminding you when you left your smart lamp on or notifying you if someone’s lurking around your backyard’s smart security camera. Your Echo Buds, Tile trackers, and other smart devices can be monitored here, too. Taking things a step further, you can teach Alexa to recognize sounds, like the beeping noise of an open fridge or your baby’s crying, so it can send you an alert to check on the situation.

For those times when it seems like you haven’t seen a family member in person in ages, the Echo Show 15 can also help relay messages. The sticky notes widgets let you leave notes for a specific person that will only show up when Alexa recognizes that person’s face in front of its 5MP camera.

The Echo Show will launch sometime this year for $250.

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