Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit on Tuesday said it will adopt key Nvidia technology in future generations of its artificial intelligence computing chips as the firm ramps up efforts to attract major AI customers to use its services.
AWS, or Amazon Web Services, said it will adopt a technology called “NVLink Fusion” in a future chip known as Trainium4. It did not specify a release date. The NVLink technology creates speedy connections between different kinds of chips and is one of Nvidia’s crown jewels.
The companies made the announcement as part of AWS’s annual week-long cloud computing conference in Las Vegas, which draws about 60,000 people.
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Nvidia has been pushing to sign up other chip firms to adopt its NVLink technology, with Intel, Qualcomm and now AWS on board.
The technology will help AWS build bigger AI servers that can recognise and communicate with one another faster, a critical factor in training large AI models, in which thousands of machines must be strung together. As part of the Nvidia partnership, customers will have access to what AWS is calling AI Factories, exclusive AI infrastructure inside their own data centres for greater speed and readiness.
“Together, Nvidia and AWS are creating the compute fabric for the AI industrial revolution – bringing advanced AI to every company, in every country, and accelerating the world’s path to intelligence,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement.