Qualcomm signs $4 billion "multi-generational" data center and AI deal with AWS
- Qualcomm to help build custom silicon and optical networking for AWS data centers
- Amazon will acquire 25 million Qualcomm shares, worth over $4 billion
- AWS data centers are more efficient than the industry average, but behind Google's
Qualcomm and Amazon have announced what they have describing as a "multi-generational product collaboration," in which Qualcomm will help build future AI data center infrastructure for AWS.
Because this isn't a one-off project, instead of announcing a single component, the companies are likely to work together across multiple generations of infrastructure spanning both custom inference silicon and high-speed optical connectivity.
Together, the two companies are expected to combine their expertise in AI infrastructure and data centers to improve performance, power efficiency and cost efficiency for a future where data centers exist in even higher volumes.
AWS and Qualcomm to work together on future data centers
The project spans two key areas – custom...
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