AWS develops Trainium and Graviton chips for AI and cloud workloads

11 articles · Updated · About Amazon · May 5

Trainium is designed to train and run AI models at lower cost, while Graviton supports general cloud computing and growing agentic AI demand.
AWS says CPUs remain central for everyday computing, whereas accelerators such as Trainium and GPUs handle parallel processing needed for AI training.
The report frames Amazon's in-house chip effort as a response to AI's shift from question-answering toward action-taking systems that increase demand across both accelerators and CPUs.

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