Amazon's cloud unit taps own chips for new supercomputing offering

Amazon Web Services’s own technology will quickly pass data through multiple Graviton processors, a key supercomputing process in which many chips act as a hive mind to tackle a large task. — Reuters

Amazon.com Inc's cloud unit on Dec 1 offered a new supercomputing service based on its self-designed processors, a further sign of how chips based on Arm Ltd's technology are encroaching on Intel Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc turf.

Amazon Web Services, or AWS, sells its computing services based on the customer's choice of an underlying central processor chip. Software developers have traditionally chosen between Intel or AMD products, but since 2018 Amazon has also offered its own "Graviton" chips designed with technology from Arm, which is in the midst of a US$40bil (RM163bil) takeover by Nvidia Corp.