Amazon may sell Trainium AI chips to external customers within two years
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Updated · Business Insider · Apr 30
Amazon may sell Trainium AI chips to external customers within two years
14 articles · Updated · Business Insider · Apr 30
CEO Andy Jassy announced Trainium chips have $225 billion in revenue commitments, with Amazon planning $200 billion in AI capex this year and considering selling physical racks beyond AWS.
This move would shift Amazon toward becoming a chip company and intensify competition with Nvidia, even as Amazon relies on Nvidia GPUs for its cloud services.
Major customers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Uber have committed to using Trainium chips, and Amazon's chip business could generate up to $50 billion in annual revenue if sold externally.
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