Amazon Updates Homegrown Chips, Even as It Grows Nvidia Ties
- Company unveils new versions of Graviton, Trainium processors
- Amazon focused on getting enough supply of vital chips
AWS will be the first big user of an updated version of Nvidia’s Grace Hopper Superchip.
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Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud-computing unit announced updated versions of its in-house computer chips while also forging closer ties with Nvidia Corp. — dual efforts designed to ensure it can get enough supplies of crucial data-center processors.
New homegrown Graviton4 chips will have as much as 30% better performance than their predecessors, Amazon Web Services said at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Computers using the processors will start coming online in the coming months.