In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs
Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon's custom Trainium CPUs for AI agentic workloads, signaling a strategic pivot toward custom silicon over traditional GPUs for certain AI inference tasks.
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Meta has commandeered a big chunk of Amazon's homegrown CPUs (not GPUs) for AI agentic workloads, signaling that a new kind of chip race has begun.
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