Amazon's secretive AI weapon: An exclusive look inside AWS' Annapurna Labs chip operation

Amazon has quietly assembled a formidable chip-design operation that could reshape the trillion-dollar market for artificial intelligence computing, positioning the e-commerce giant to break free from its dependence on Nvidia and potentially undercut rivals across the cloud industry. The company's Annapurna Labs division, revealed through interviews with current and former insiders, is developing custom silicon specifically engineered for the machine-learning workloads that power everything from ChatGPT-style models to corporate data centers. If Amazon's chips prove competitive, it would mark a rare moment when a major cloud provider successfully challenges Nvidia's near-monopoly on AI infrastructure—a shift that could ripple through the entire technology sector and reshape where companies choose

SiliconANGLE·Nov 27