Intel to Make Custom AI Chip for Amazon, Delay German Plant
- Shares jump after Intel announces Amazon win, efficiency plans
- The company says its US factory expansion remains on track
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Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger has landed Amazon.com Inc.’s AWS as a customer for the company’s manufacturing business, potentially bringing work to new plants under construction in the US and boosting his efforts to turn around the embattled chipmaker.
Intel and AWS will coinvest in a custom semiconductor for artificial intelligence computing – what’s known as a fabric chip – in a “multiyear, multibillion-dollar framework,” according to a statement Monday. The work will rely on Intel’s 18A process, an advanced chipmaking technology.