[News] Amazon’s Next-gen AI Training Chip Trainium3 to Debut by 2025, Reportedly Built with TSMC’s 3nm

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Cloud giant Amazon unveiled its most powerful self-developed chip, Trainium3, at the AWS Cloud Conference a couple of hours ago. According to the company’s press release, Trainum3 will also be the first Amazon chip to be fabricated with 3nm.

As per another report from Taiwanese media outlet Economic Daily News, Trainium3 would be produced by TSMC and is set to be released by the end of next year.

Citing AWS CEO Matt Garman’s remarks during his keynote, ZDNet notes that the new Trainium3 chip will be up to twice as fast as its predecessor, Trainium2, while offering 40% better energy efficiency.

On the other hand, Amazon’s UltraServers powered by Trainium3 are expected to deliver four times the performance of those using Trainium2 chips, as per Amazon’s press release.

According to Reuters, Amazon also unveiled new data center servers on Tuesday, featuring its proprietary Trainium2 AI chips. The new server reportedly has an impressive roster of clients, as Apple has joined as a customer, with Apple’s senior director of machine learning and AI Benoit Dupin confirming the company’s adoption of Trainium2 chips.

It is worth noting that AWS’s newly unveiled Trn2 UltraServers are set to rival NVIDIA’s flagship servers, which feature 72 of its cutting-edge Blackwell chips, Reuters adds. According to Gadi Hutt, AWS’s head of AI chip business development, AWS can link a larger number of chips together compared to NVIDIA, according to Reuters.

Citing Hutt, the Reuters report suggests that Trainium2 could offer customers greater computational power than NVIDIA’s current offerings, while also delivering cost savings, noting that certain AI models could be trained at 40% lower costs compared to using NVIDIA’s chips.

Notably, both NVIDIA and Amazon rely on Taiwan’s foundry giant TSMC for chip production, Reuters notes.

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