Amazon’s AWS cloud service shows new AI servers, says Apple will use its chips
In a move challenging Nvidia’s dominance in the AI chip market, Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), unveiled new data center servers on Tuesday. These servers are equipped with custom-designed AI chips developed by Amazon itself. Apple has emerged as an early adopter of this technology, becoming the first major customer to utilize these new AI chips.
Stephen Nellis and Greg Bensinger for Reuters:
The new servers, based on 64 of Amazon Web Services’ Trainium2 chips, will be strung together in a massive supercomputer with hundreds of thousands of chips, with the help AI startup Anthropic, which will be the first to use it. Apple executive Benoit Dupin also said that Apple is using Trainium2 chips.
AWS Chief Executive Matt Garman also said that Trainium3, the company’s next generation of AI chip, will debut next year.
The new offerings “are purpose-built for the demanding workloads of cutting edge generative AI training and inference,” said Garman at the event in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
The new servers, which AWS calls Trn2 UltraServers, will compete against Nvidia’s flagship server packing 72 of its latest “Blackwell” chips. Both companies also offer proprietary technology for connecting the chips, though Gadi Hutt, who leads business development for the AI chips at AWS, said that AWS will be able to connect a greater number of chips together than Nvidia.
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