Yesterday, Amazon announced its newest streaming adapter: The new Fire TV Stick HD, which will be released at the end of the month, is being touted as the company’s “slimmest and most portable stick to date.” The stick also improves over its predecessor with Wi-Fi 6 support, and is supposed to be 30 percent faster than the prior model.
One detail left out of the official announcement: The new Fire TV Stick HD runs Vega, Amazon’s new Linux-based operating system, as the company confirmed after I reached out yesterday. Amazon has been quietly working on Vega for years, and began using it for its Echo Show smart displays before debuting it on a first Fire TV stick last fall.