The cloud computing unit of Amazon.com Inc presented on Tuesday two new custom computer chips intended to help your customers overcome the cost of using products from Intel Corp. and Nvidia Corp..
With $ 45.37 billion in sales in 2020, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s largest cloud computing provider and one of the largest buyers of chips for data centers, whose computing power it rents to its customers.
Since he bought a startup called Annapurna Labs in 2015, AWS has worked to develop its own custom chips.
On Tuesday, the company released the third generation of its “Graviton” chip that is designed to compete with the central processor of Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
The “Graviton3” is 25% faster than its predecessor, and Dave Brown, vice president of Elastic Compute Cloud en Amazon, told Reuters that the company expects it to provide better performance per dollar than Intel chips.
AWS also said that a new class of chip called Trainium, which is designed to train machine learning computer models and will compete with the Nvidia chips, will soon be available to your customers.
AWS still works closely with Intel, AMD, and Nvidia. For example, it is working with Nvidia to pair its Graviton processors to provide a way for developers to android games stream their titles to devices.
Brown said AWS wants to keep the computing market competitive by offering an additional chip option.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx