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Amazon ready to use its own AI chips, reduce its dependence on Nvidia (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 month ago by gedaliyah to c/technology
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Amazon is poised to roll out its newest artificial intelligence chips as the Big Tech group seeks returns on its multibillion-dollar semiconductor investments and to reduce its reliance on market leader Nvidia.

Executives at Amazon’s cloud computing division are spending big on custom chips in the hopes of boosting the efficiency inside its dozens of data centers, ultimately bringing down its own costs as well as those of Amazon Web Services’ customers.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ultimately bringing down its own costs as well as those of Amazon Web Services’ customers.

LOL

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A) fuck Amazon
B) yeah this is actually plausible. They made their own 'Graviton' ARM CPUs to reduce dependencies on Intel (obligatory fuck Intel too) and they're a lot cheaper

[–] postnataldrip 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bet you they will make them work in inhospitable conditions and forget they exist until they don't meet an unrealistic performance target.

No wait, sorry. I was thinking of their human workers.

[–] CosmoNova 3 points 1 month ago

Both can be true at the same time if you just use human labor behind a screen to assist the lackluster hard- and software. They tried that with their self-checkout supermarkets while claiming they were fully automated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

No specifications of the chips?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How much was Ars paid for tbis?