Despite talk of an impending AI bubble, Amazon is the latest company to benefit from the AI arms race. Meta just inked a deal with Amazon worth billions to deploy the AWS Graviton processors in its 32 data centers over the next three years. While Amazon hasn’t disclosed the full value of the deal, we’ve seen companies spend eye-popping sums to sustain their AI growth.
Recently, Meta also signed a six-year, $10 billion deal with Google Cloud, while OpenAI agreed to spend $20 billion with chip startup Cerebras over the next three years to use servers powered by the company’s hardware.
The Graviton processors support cloud workloads that run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and the company has long said that it offers the best price performance for cloud workloads.
What’s interesting here is that the AWS Graviton is an ARM-based CPU, rather than a GPU. CPU refers to a computer’s
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