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Qualcomm and Amazon to build AI data centre chips
The Hindu BusinessLine··9 Sept
Qualcomm and Amazon will jointly develop multiple generations of customised chips for Amazon Web Services AI data centres, focusing on inference workloads. Qualcomm said the collaboration covers high-speed optical connectivity up to 1.6T and future-generation technologies using its SerDes and optical digital signal processing. AWS vice president Prasad Kalyanaraman said the partnership aims to deliver more performant and cost-effective infrastructure.
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What It Means For You
- The multi-generation deal targets large-scale AI data centres run by AWS.
- Optical connectivity work extends to future bandwidth needs as AI workloads grow.
- Qualcomm also plans to increase its use of AWS AI services under the partnership.
What's Happening
- Qualcomm announced the collaboration in a Tuesday press release.
- CEO Cristiano Amon said Qualcomm brings decades of advanced processing and power-efficient compute leadership.
- The companies said AI demand is accelerating infrastructure requirements across data centres.
Connectivity specifications
- Qualcomm said the firms are working on optical connectivity solutions extending up to 1.6T.
- The release cited increasing data and bandwidth requirements in AI data centre networks.
- Customised silicon and connectivity are both part of the announced collaboration scope.
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