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AWS better at running chip fabs than their mouths
Amazon, along with the rest of the industry, has gotten so used to framing everything that happens through the context of AI that it has lost the plot on their Graviton chip lineup, and along with it their own credibility. Which is a shame, because it’s actually a triumph of a chip.
First, the Wall Street Journal breathlessly reported that Snowflake’s $6 billion AWS commitment was “for agentic computing chips.” Then AWS’s own press release heralded the release of their latest chips “for the Agentic AI era.” In both cases, they were referring to their Graviton line.
You could be forgiven for thinking this was some kind of GPU. No, that’s Trainium. (Technically, Trainium isn’t a GPU, nor is it a CPU, but rather a systolic array. Don’t worry; most AI engineering software doesn’t know what the hell that is, either.) Graviton is AWS’s general…