IBM wants Nvidia GPUs, and AWS might be the answer

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IBM is setting its sights on a major upgrade in AI hardware, with the company in talks with AWS to access Nvidia’s highly sought-after AI chips.

The deal, worth an estimated $475 million over five years, would grant IBM access to AWS’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers, which are powered by Nvidia GPUs. As part of the arrangement, IBM would also use AWS’s SageMaker platform to train its AI models.

Why Nvidia?

So, why all the fuss over Nvidia GPUs? It comes down to IBM’s growing AI ambitions, particularly its Watson platform. AI projects are becoming more complex and resource-intensive, and Nvidia GPUs are the industry favourite ...