AWS inks multibillion-dollar AI infrastructure deal with Meta – SiliconANGLE

Amazon Web Services Inc. has inked a multiyear deal to supply Meta Platforms Inc. with cloud infrastructure.

Bloomberg reported today that the agreement is worth billions of dollars.

The deal centers on AWS’ Graviton family of internally developed central processing units. According to the company, Meta will purchase access to tens of millions of Graviton cores with the option to add more down the line. It will use the chips to power artificial intelligence agents.

AWS debuted the newest addition to the Graviton chip line, the Graviton5, last December. It features 192 cores made using a three-nanometer manufacturing process. The cores implement Arm Holdings plc’s ubiquitous instruction set architecture, or ISA.

A chip’s ISA defines the language in which it expresses computations. The “words” that make up the language are simple computing operations such as arithmetic calculations. Arm’s ISA also includes matrix and vector extensions, computations optimized for AI…