Trainium Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/trainium/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:39:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg Trainium Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/trainium/ 32 32 86113652 Amazon Will Spend Nearly A Year Of AWS Revenue On AI Investments https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/07/amazon-will-spend-nearly-a-year-of-aws-revenue-on-ai-investments/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/07/amazon-will-spend-nearly-a-year-of-aws-revenue-on-ai-investments/#comments Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:02:52 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145278 There is a bit of AI spending one-upmanship going on among the hyperscalers and cloud builders – and now the foundation model builders who are partnering with their new sugar daddies to be able to afford to build vast AI accelerator estates to push the state of the art in model capabilities and intelligence. …

Amazon Will Spend Nearly A Year Of AWS Revenue On AI Investments was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/07/amazon-will-spend-nearly-a-year-of-aws-revenue-on-ai-investments/feed/ 2 145278 AWS Reaps The Benefits Of The Custom Silicon It Has Sown https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/03/aws-reaps-the-benefits-of-the-custom-silicon-it-has-sown/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/03/aws-reaps-the-benefits-of-the-custom-silicon-it-has-sown/#comments Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:38:58 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145078 When the hyperscalers and cloud builders were smaller and the Arm collective had failed to storm the datacenter and AMD was not yet on its path to resurgence, it was Intel that controlled the cadence of new compute engine introductions into the datacenter. …

AWS Reaps The Benefits Of The Custom Silicon It Has Sown was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/03/aws-reaps-the-benefits-of-the-custom-silicon-it-has-sown/feed/ 3 145078 AWS Hedges Its Bets With Nvidia GPUs And Homegrown AI Chips https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/12/aws-hedges-its-bets-with-nvidia-gpus-and-homegrown-ai-chips/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/12/aws-hedges-its-bets-with-nvidia-gpus-and-homegrown-ai-chips/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:17:07 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143982 There was a time – and it doesn’t seem like that long ago – that the datacenter chip market was a big-money but relatively simple landscape, with CPUs from Intel and AMD and Arm looking to muscle its way in and GPUs mostly from Nvidia with some from AMD and Intel looking to muscle its way in. …

AWS Hedges Its Bets With Nvidia GPUs And Homegrown AI Chips was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/12/aws-hedges-its-bets-with-nvidia-gpus-and-homegrown-ai-chips/feed/ 1 143982 Amazon Gives Anthropic $2.75 Billion So It Can Spend It On AWS XPUs https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/27/amazon-gives-anthropic-2-75-billion-so-it-can-spend-it-on-aws-gpus/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/27/amazon-gives-anthropic-2-75-billion-so-it-can-spend-it-on-aws-gpus/#respond Thu, 28 Mar 2024 02:37:34 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143874 If Microsoft has the half of OpenAI that didn’t leave, then Amazon and its Amazon Web Services cloud division needs the half of OpenAI that did leave – meaning Anthropic. …

Amazon Gives Anthropic $2.75 Billion So It Can Spend It On AWS XPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/27/amazon-gives-anthropic-2-75-billion-so-it-can-spend-it-on-aws-gpus/feed/ 0 143874 How AWS Can Undercut Nvidia With Homegrown AI Compute Engines https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/12/04/how-aws-can-undercut-nvidia-with-homegrown-ai-compute-engines/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/12/04/how-aws-can-undercut-nvidia-with-homegrown-ai-compute-engines/#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2023 16:53:56 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143339 Amazon Web Services may not be the first of the hyperscalers and cloud builders to create its own custom compute engines, but it has been hot on the heels of Google, which started using its homegrown TPU accelerators for AI workloads in 2015. …

How AWS Can Undercut Nvidia With Homegrown AI Compute Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/12/04/how-aws-can-undercut-nvidia-with-homegrown-ai-compute-engines/feed/ 1 143339 GPU Shortages Will Prop Up The Clouds In More Ways Than One https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/08/14/gpu-shortages-will-prop-up-the-clouds-in-more-ways-than-one/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/08/14/gpu-shortages-will-prop-up-the-clouds-in-more-ways-than-one/#respond Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:40:21 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142750 For the last two quarters at least, the generic infrastructure server market – the one running databases, application servers, various web layers, and print and file serving workloads the world over – has been in a recession. …

GPU Shortages Will Prop Up The Clouds In More Ways Than One was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/08/14/gpu-shortages-will-prop-up-the-clouds-in-more-ways-than-one/feed/ 0 142750 AWS Sizes Trainium for AI/ML Model Boom https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/12/02/aws-sizes-trainium-for-ai-ml-model-boom/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/12/02/aws-sizes-trainium-for-ai-ml-model-boom/#respond Fri, 03 Dec 2021 02:53:05 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=139744 While AWS is making it clear it will continue to innovate around GPUs for cloud-based machine learning, there was little doubt after today that the company’s own Trainium devices are set to outdo what even the top-line Nvidia GPU instances have achieved. …

AWS Sizes Trainium for AI/ML Model Boom was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

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