Qualcomm Strikes Major Amazon AWS Deal For Custom AI Data Center Chips
Qualcomm and Amazon have announced a multi-generational strategic collaboration to co-develop custom AI inference silicon and high-bandwidth optical interconnects for hyperscale data centers. The agreement marks Qualcomm's largest expansion into cloud data center infrastructure to date, pairing its power-efficient processing architecture with Amazon Web Services' cloud fabric.
The deal aims to address two major bottlenecks in hyperscale environments: AI inference energy-efficiency and internal cluster networking speed. The two tech giants will co-design custom neural processing accelerators built specifically for high performance and high efficiency inference, marking Qualcomm's largest hyperscale push since securing its custom AI chip deal with ByteDance.
"As AI workloads grow exponentially—driving unprecedented demand for compute, storage, networking and memory bandwidth, and energy-efficient infrastructure—the collaboration brings together Amazon’s comprehensive, secure, and price-performant AI infrastructure with Qualcomm Technologies’ leadership in power-efficient processing, silicon design and system-level integration," Qualcomm said.
Additionally, Qualcomm is bringing its digital signal processing (DSP)...
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