At a conference in Las Vegas, Amazon Cloud CEO Adam Selipsky announced Trainium 2, a second-generation chip designed for training AI systems.
The latest version of the processor is four times more powerful than its predecessor, while being twice as energy efficient, Selipsky said.
Amazon rival Microsoft has already released its own custom AI chip called Maia. The online retailer’s Trainium 2 will add to a market that includes big names including Google, which launched its TPU processor for cloud customers in 2018.
Cloud businesses are now looking to replace chips made by Nvidia, the world's leading chipmaker, due to concerns about dependence on a single source of supply.
Amazon said that in addition to its own chip models, the company's cloud customers can still choose services using Nvidia chips.
Also at the conference, Selipsky announced Graviton 4, a fourth-generation custom central processing chip, which is said to be 30 percent faster than the previous version.
The move also mirrors Microsoft's launch of its custom Cobalt chip a few weeks ago.
Both AWS and Microsoft are using Arm chip technology, part of a trend away from chips made by Intel and AMD for cloud computing.
Meanwhile, another major cloud company, Oracle, is using chips from startup Ampere Computing for its cloud services.
(According to Reuters)
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