DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - IT Hardware & Semiconductors, Amazon Web Services
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Qualcomm and AWS partner on custom silicon for large-scale AI data centers
Will also work on optical connectivity solution with up to 1.6T
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AWS to deploy 2 million additional Nvidia GPUs
Two companies expand their partnership
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Alchip taps AWS for semiconductor design and simulation workloads
Expands use of cloud platform
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Pinterest signs $4bn infrastructure agreement with AWS
Will use AWS' Graviton and Trainium chips
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Microsoft claims to be first hyperscaler to "power on" Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 system
Plus the other clouds set to adopt the latest generation of Nvidia AI infrastructure
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AWS partners with big chip co. Cerebras for AI “inference disaggregation”
Will be deployed on Amazon Bedrock in AWS data centers
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OpenAI to use 2GW of Trainium on AWS, expand Amazon cloud contract by $100bn
After Amazon pumps $50bn into the AI company
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AWS has “never retired” an Nvidia A100 server, CEO Matt Garman claims
Demand still high from those running HPC workloads
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AWS launches Graviton5 CPU
Now available in preview
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AWS builds separate cabinet to bypass Nvidia networking hardware
Hyperscaler couldn’t fit its custom network cards in Nvidia’s racks, so it built a sidecar
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AWS launches UltraServers with Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs
Instances now generally available
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Amazon details Project Rainier compute cluster
Hundreds of thousands of chips connected
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IonQ's Forte Enterprise available on Amazon's Braket quantum computing service
Joins company’s Aria-1, Aria-2, and Forte on the service
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AWS Trainium's lead mechanical thermal engineer joins OpenAI
Kenny Huynh moves to generative AI company
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Amazon's Kuiper nabs Google custom chip director to build space silicon
Maruthy Vedam goes from TPUs to satellite semiconductors
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AWS offers instances using HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3200
Ideal for large in-memory databases
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Apple uses Amazon's Graviton and Inferentia chips, also explores Trainium2
Apple's Benoit Dupin went on stage at AWS Re:Invent 2024
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AWS announces EC2 UltraServers with Trainium2 chips and EC2 instances with Blackwell GPUs
Also announces plans for Trainium3
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Amazon to invest another $4bn in generative AI company Anthropic
In return for a promise to use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips
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IBM nears deal for access to AWS GPUs
Companies reportedly negotiating $475 million agreement
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AWS to discontinue Snowcone Edge appliance, cuts Snowball family hardware range to two devices
Company kills off another member of the Snow family
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Amazon gives AI researchers free computing access to Trainium chips
Aims to challenge Nvidia's popularity among researchers
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AWS enters "multi-year, multi-billion-dollar" custom chip deal with Intel
Handing a crucial lifeline to the beleaguered chipmaker
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Rigetti’s 84-qubit Ankaa-2 quantum computer available through AWS' Braket service
Highest qubit-count gate-based quantum system currently available on Braket
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State-linked Chinese entities use AWS for access to high-end chips - report
Continues to work around export restrictions
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Amazon acquires Edge chip and AI model compression company Perceive
$80m deal aimed at end-user devices
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AWS Graviton4-based EC2 R8g instances now generally available
Instance is based on AWS' most powerful and energy-efficient processor