AWS Invests in Homegrown Trainium AI Accelerators
The datacenter business at Nvidia has shown incredible revenues and profits, indicating that large compute customers, including hyperscalers and cloud builders, require improved price/performance to increase their own profits.
Amazon's Trainium AI accelerator is used for both AI inferencing and training, and is integrated into the company's SageMaker and Bedrock AI stacks.
AWS appears to be sidelining the related Inferentia line of inference accelerators during the GenAI era.
Author's summary: AWS develops Trainium AI accelerators.