A key part of Amazon’s AI strategy is to update its custom silicon so that it can not only bring down the costs of AI for its business customers, but also give the company more control over its supply chain.
That could also make AWS less reliant on Nvidia, one of its closest partners, whose GPUs the company makes available for customers to rent on its cloud platform.
Off-topic, but speaking of Amazon and AI: I’ve noticed that now, if you ask a question about an item, instead of being answered by a person who bought and reviewed it you just get an answer compiled from reviews by an AI.
I don’t like that.
Commercial chips have embedded malware, exploits and back doors that can be used to spy on systems , take remote control of them or take them down.
It's really hard to detect these malicious codes because they are implemented at the circuit level and they are part of the silicone circuit architecture. Chip making is becoming a generic technology due to AI circuit design and automated chip processing so it is well within the grasp of a company the size of Apple, Amazon, Google or GM . This is especially true of specialized, dedicated purpose chips like GPU processors