Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’
Amazon and Nvidia just got a lot closer. The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that includes a deal to add another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to Amazon’s data centers.
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- Fact 1: The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that includes a deal to add another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to Amazon’s data centers.
- Fact 2: The chips will head to Amazon Web Services’ data centers in 2027 and 2028.
- Fact 3: The announcement, made during Nvidia’s quarterly earnings call, comes just five months after Amazon agreed to deploy more than 1 million Nvidia GPUs across AWS infrastructure starting this year.
- Fact 4: Amazon’s AI chief Peter DeSantis has said that AWS is in talks to sell its Trainium chips — which are a direct alternative to Nvidia’s H100 or Blackwell chips for deep learning workloads — to other companies for use in data centers.
Amazon and Nvidia just got a lot closer. The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that includes a deal to add another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to Amazon’s data centers.
These GPUs, which are designed to handle the heavy compute demands of training and running AI models, include Nvidia Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra GPUs. The chips will head to Amazon Web Services’ data centers in 2027 and 2028. The announcement, made during Nvidia’s quarterly earnings call, comes just five months after Amazon agreed to deploy more than 1 million Nvidia GPUs across AWS infrastructure starting this year.
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Original source: TechCrunch
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