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Qualcomm and AWS partner on custom silicon for large-scale AI data centers
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Qualcomm is teaming up with Amazon to develop customized AI infrastructure solutions.
Key facts
- In what is described as a multi-generational partnership, Qualcomm Technologies and Amazon will develop customized silicon for large-scale AI data centers, specifically targeting AI inference
- Qualcomm unveiled several new data center offerings in June of this year, including the Qualcomm Dragonfly C1000 CPU, Qualcomm High Bandwidth Compute (HBC), and the Qualcomm Dragonfly AI300 inference
- Qualcomm will also increase its own use of AWS' AI infrastructure, including the Amazon Bedrock platform for its electronic design automation workloads
- As AI demand accelerates, data center infrastructure will require advances in both computing and connectivity to deliver greater performance with more efficiency,” said Cristiano Amon, president
Summary
In what is described as a multi-generational partnership, Qualcomm Technologies and Amazon will develop customized silicon for large-scale AI data centers, specifically targeting AI inference, as well as optical connectivity solutions extending up to 1.6T. The partnership will combine Amazon's AI infrastructure with Qualcomm's chip design experience. Qualcomm will also increase its own use of AWS' AI infrastructure, including the Amazon Bedrock platform for its electronic design automation workloads. “As AI demand accelerates, data center infrastructure will require advances in both computing and connectivity to deliver greater performance with more efficiency,” said Cristiano Amon, president and CEO, Qualcomm Incorporated.